Trustee MacLean

Trustee, North Pender Island Local Trust Committee. 931 lines across 5 meetings, 2022-01-19 to 2026-07-16. The longest three lines from each meeting are shown; the transcript page has every line, with its confidence mark, and the recording plays from any of them.

1. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 16, 2026

   2026-07-16 · 199 lines

   • [0:35:04] “And so I guess my question for Bruce and for Danny, and I do want to see the motion, but does us reviewing the siting of the two-tiered 1.2-meter boulder wall, the siting of the 0.6-meter rock wall, the siting of the reinforced concrete retaining wall, and the siting of the new wood staircase enable Danny to go forward with the plan that he has?”
   • [0:32:34] “But when we went out on site and we saw the way that this concrete wall was fit into the shore and the particular placement of the concrete wall in relation to runoff from properties and streets above and the natural landscape existing, I think that the concrete wall actually does work in this situation.”
   • [0:34:42] “also looking down into the RISAC report, simply just two pages later, there's a page of two photographs, and there's a figure two site plan not for construction, which shows the two boulder retaining walls, the concrete retaining wall, and it shows existing wood stairs and proposed landing.”

2. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 28, 2023

   2023-09-28 · 62 lines

   • [0:00:36] “And one of the difficulties I have, I'm not sure if it's within your purview to address, is I believe that in Islands Trust, there's a rule that someone can only serve on one type of board, i.e. a board of variance member cannot go and join the advisory design panel or the planning advisory group.”
   • [0:01:04] “some people who might be want to be in the Board of Variants are more, you know, they also want to be on these other things. So I think we might be losing some skills there.”
   • [0:00:55] “And if there was a way that that could be changed, that would be great, because we certainly have a very limited number of”

3. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 13, 2023

   2023-09-13 · 103 lines

   • [0:15:49] “And that's what I'm seeing is that there's not an undue hardship here, that your property isn't substantially different from your neighbors. For example, if your property was incredibly narrow, and we could say, like, look, my property is only 10 feet wide, it would be crazy of you to make me build a house that's only one foot wide in the middle of it.”
   • [0:15:31] “Our job is to take this zoning model, which is applied to all of the lots on North Pender, and look at how it creates an undue burden for you that your property is zoned the same way that the neighbor or the other neighbor's property is zoned.”
   • [0:22:59] “While I do understand, Ken, that your time is valuable and that these design exercises are costly, again, the cost of redesign is something that we can't consider as it's a material cost and not part of the physical reality of the site.”

4. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 26, 2023

   2023-07-26 · 323 lines

   • [0:19:56] “And you know, like, I'm not an engineer, but I've drawn a few buildings. I think, like, how is this main floor supported? Like, where is the shear in this? We haven't really had a building department or a registered professional look at the house.”
   • [1:07:18] “don't know if there's a way we can suggest that we might be able to expedite this process or if that's something we more just leave to the Machinery Violence Trust. But”
   • [0:24:44] “And as Brad sort of hinted earlier, there's a number, like you're only allowed to retain a certain amount of soil before you need to have an engineered retaining wall.”

5. North Pender Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, January 19, 2022

   2022-01-19 · 244 lines

   • [1:10:46] “So I guess that if we can understand that this application has nothing to do with the doc, and that we're not protecting the doc, and we're not condoning this doc, and that we're not making any decisions based on how much or what the financial impact to the decision might be, I think we could maybe move ahead.”
   • [0:49:46] “Do we just say, no, we don't build in our shoreline, and we let this erode and whatever natural forces take place happen here. So I'm kind of struggling to understand, one, I guess is a case for hardship, and two is why in this particular instance we interrupt this shoreline instead of moving something back.”
   • [0:20:36] “So, I have one technical question for Phil and so many questions for the applicants. The technical question I have for Phil is, when we, if we approve this, are we accepting the rationale for hardship in the letter? Do we accept everything as per the letter or do we?”