Warren Dingman, Manager of Bylaw Compliance & Enforcement

Staff, Islands Trust Conservancy Board, Denman Island Local Trust Committee, Mayne Island Local Trust Committee, Saturna Island Local Trust Committee, Thetis Island Local Trust Committee. 659 lines across 12 meetings, 2023-11-27 to 2026-08-24. 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. Denman LTC regular meeting, 24 August 2026

    2026-08-24 · 72 lines

    • [0:42:15] “The local trust committee will have to proceed with any type of legal action it wishes in the future, and it goes to a notice of civil claim in BC Supreme Court.”
    • [0:26:53] “Thank you. We don't have any means to issue stop work orders. We have requested the non-permitted uses and instructions to cease. It has not ceased.”
    • [0:27:47] “We go through that ticketing process, and if we can't get compliance, the LTC will have to consider legal action at some future date.”

  2. Saturna Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, July 20, 2026

    2026-07-20 · 49 lines

    • [0:42:34] “5.3, in compliance with the Trust Council by-law compliance and enforcement policy 5.1, investigations will focus on the specific alleged by-law contravention outlined in the complaint unless other observations pose an immediate risk to public health and safety or the environment.”
    • [0:43:01] “So the staff are presenting amendments to the current by-law compliance and enforcement policy that are intended to address current compliance and enforcement issues on Maine Island and to improve the overall effectiveness of by-law compliance and enforcement efforts.”
    • [0:41:40] “5. Enforcement of violations related to disposal or storage of waste or recyclable materials or storage of vehicles, derelict vehicles, or vehicle parts is authorized without a written complaint.”

  3. Denman LTC regular meeting, 23 June 2026

    2026-06-23 · 29 lines

    • [4:52:51] “It will be a $500 penalty, and it will, if this penalty is assessed, any respondent, disputant can enter a compliance agreement, and they get a 100% discount on the penalty as long as they agree to get the appropriate development permit.”
    • [0:21:51] “Okay, so Chair, hopefully you can now hear me now. We do have an open file for this property, and the property owners have been informed about the contraventions on the property, and that they need to cease doing certain unlawful things.”
    • [0:22:06] “There's permits that they require, and we will follow up as necessary to ensure that they comply with the Siding and Use By-law and the Land Use By-law for Denman.”

  4. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, April 20, 2026

    2026-04-20 · 165 lines

    • [3:39:04] “Your alternative options here are to request a further report in a closed meeting, or you could direct staff to put this on hold while rezoning or other planning applications are submitted by the property owner in order to resolve all the issues.”
    • [3:39:32] “And also, everyone should know is that the establishment of a residence on the lot 69 with a person residing in that residence directly involved in the market will allow the market to continue as it's been operating.”
    • [2:40:04] “And there's a difference between the derelict, even if you don't provide a definition in your land use bylaw, there's a difference between an unlicensed vehicle that is just doesn't have insurance or tags.”

  5. Denman Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, December 16, 2025

    2025-12-16 · 36 lines

    • [2:45:02] “And it's difficult to go through the different court cases and the different islands and the different regulations.”
    • [2:45:16] “have issued a gooey duck license you know tenure to harvest plant or however they do it and harvest”
    • [2:42:17] “future regulations you might want to put in your water zones. This issue is not dissimilar from the”

  6. Thetis Island Local Trust Committee regular meeting, September 3, 2025

    2025-09-03 · 26 lines

    • [1:12:54] “I believe that within the actual Trust Council policies, there hasn't been an expansion of what the screening officer does or the policies and procedures for screening officers is because those are specific to those local trust committees that have adopted a bend bylaw.”
    • [1:09:10] “We can certainly give them some feedback and say, okay, why can't we use this for other issues if we believe there's noncompliance?”
    • [1:13:10] “so it doesn't apply trust-wide there are 10 local trust areas that have been bylaws but not all of”

  7. Mayne Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 24, 2025

    2025-02-24 · 24 lines

    • [0:22:32] “Yes, Ben should call me so that we can discuss it and I can explain it, I believe, in more detail.”
    • [0:11:56] “i've got the letters open the determination letter open in front of me in the notes for the file”
    • [0:11:05] “trust committee and then the local trust committee is going to give staff direction on what they”

  8. Mayne Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, January 27, 2025

    2025-01-27 · 66 lines

    • [0:24:21] “Say on Gabriola, you know, anyone, it's worded in such a way that anyone with an upland residential lot can have a mooring buoy or a float in the general water zone.”
    • [0:18:58] “People have had floats in there, although they're not all entirely lawful because some of them need to have a proper walkway or attachment to their property.”
    • [0:24:33] “You can take a more liberal interpretation and the LDC could pass a, you know, a new motion stating that, you know, that's what's allowed.”

  9. Islands Trust Conservancy Board community information meeting, November 25, 2024

    2024-11-25 · 70 lines

    • [0:59:35] “Within these current policies, there are policies that aren't explicitly stated, such as the notice of site inspections, time to comply, frivolous or vexatious complaints, definition of minor contraventions, and the use of discretion for bylaw staff.”
    • [0:59:07] “So the purpose of this policy is for reviewing consideration by local trust committee proposals to incorporate all current standing resolutions for compliance and enforcement into a single document and to provide clarity on current policies.”
    • [1:02:33] “And then there's a paragraph that says, as there may be a contravention of the land use bylaw or some development permit area in the OCP, we've opened up a file to investigate.”

  10. Mayne Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, June 24, 2024

    2024-06-24 · 15 lines

    • [1:30:52] “So what Denman has already done, they've already adopted a set of policies to deal with specific issues”
    • [1:31:50] “the differences between each island will be one your standing resolutions on what you want with”
    • [1:31:26] “Salt Spring they didn't adopt it and so it's going to have to be edited and go back to them”

  11. Mayne Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, February 26, 2024

    2024-02-26 · 31 lines

    • [2:54:55] “I do know that there are some documents that can be served by a police force for us, but as far as the municipal tickets, I'm not sure that they can serve them for us.”
    • [2:53:50] “lot of operators who don't live on maine and they live in the lower mainland then we would have to”
    • [2:35:43] “industries can be used as a template to provide restrictions on, for one, setbacks from lot lines,”

  12. Mayne Island Local Trust Committee community information meeting, November 27, 2023

    2023-11-27 · 76 lines

    • [2:00:27] “The trustees get lobbied. If there's someone really concerned about enforcement, their enforcement file, they will go to their trustees and make their concerns know. And then that leads to the ad hoc, let's deal with this just on one at a time type deal, right? It doesn't happen with all of them, but there are lots of people who will try to lobby their trustee anyway, because they don't believe they should be enforced on for one reason or another.”
    • [1:56:39] “The other options you have are the status quo, increasing the role of the RPM to work with the manager on whether or not to proceed with the issuance of violation notices after we've gone through the rest of the violent enforcement process, or the LTC adopting policies to give guidance to the manager and the bylaw officers, or rescind the current bylaw and go back to just straight legal action.”
    • [2:05:51] “it's not, again, and it's not specific to whether or not the issue of BVN, it's just they'll consider all options as what resources or whether or not they want to proceed with any type of enforcement.”