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Discussion guide for round two engagement on the draft plan. Consultation period 21 May to 22 June 2026. 23 pages.

Round two draft official community plan, 5 May 2026. 131 pages. Issued with the land use map, the ESA DPA map and the land use designations table.

Part 3, Land Use, from the 5 May 2026 draft plan: the 19 land use designations and what each permits. Four pages, from page 61.

Land use map issued with the 5 May 2026 draft plan, showing the designations from Conservation Area through the village and neighbourhood categories.

Map B-1 issued with the 5 May 2026 draft plan: environmentally sensitive areas development permit area, with the mapped classes including riparian, wetland, freshwater and the forest types.

Annual Report of Activities under the Drinking Water Protection Act in BC for fiscal year 2023/24. 78 pages. Signed by the deputy and addressed to the Minister of Water, Land and Resource Stewardship.

Council Policy 25-03, effective 8 September 2025, review due September 2028. Three pages. Sets the approach to managing assets and the services they deliver.

The blank Temporary Use Permit application form in use now, four pages. Two application types only, permit $850 and renewal $350. Carries an application checklist staff can decline to process without, including current property information with title dated within 90 days, payment, a site plan, and information from strata, landlord or neighbours including copies of letters from neighbours about the proposed use. Site plan requirements name the location of wells, drainage areas, septic fields, and natural features including watercourses, wetlands and the sea. Section 5 asks what happens when the permit expires and the steps to restore the land, with security possible as a guarantee. The PDF was created on 23 January 2025 from a Word document last modified on 20 January 2025, according to the file metadata. It replaces the 2020 form, which also offered an amendment at $350 and carried no checklist.

Annual Report of Activities under the Drinking Water Protection Act in BC, 2022 to 2023. 64 pages. Described as the first annual report under the Act, which came into force in May 2003.

The domestic indicator set Canada reports against alongside the global SDG indicators. 21 pages. Released 25 September 2024. Statistics Canada catalogue number 11-26-0004, issue 2024001, ISBN 978-0-660-73176-6.

Annual update to Council on the memorandum of understanding between the Municipality and the Conservancy, 9 September 2024. Four pages. Records a grant of $3,500 towards a publication on Deep Bay, Mannion Bay, Kwilákm, following the Marine Atlas.

Harmonized metadata for indicator 6.4.2, freshwater withdrawal as a proportion of available freshwater resources, under Goal 6. 11 pages. Last updated 29 July 2024.

Bowen Island Conservancy synopsis of its presentation to Council on 8 July 2024, launching the Caring for Nature initiative: a two year phase from 2024 to 2026 to produce a Bowen Island Biodiversity Conservation Plan. Three pages.

Revised agenda and full package, 44 pages. Carries the Asset Management Overview presented by the Public Works Utilities Coordinator and the Director of Engineering (item 4.1), with the PSD Citywide screens for culverts: the data inventory of 323 records, the capital replacement profile showing about $5.05 million falling in 2024 against a $23.6 million event cost, the risk heat map, and two asset summary views. Also the draft minutes of 16 May 2024, the MTFI terms of reference, and excerpts from the 27 May 2024 Regular Council meeting on the CAO resignation, the Cove Bay and Eagle Cliff water systems connection loan bylaw, the road works tender and the Snug Cove sewer outfall petition result. CivicWeb document 312801.

Screen from the PSD Citywide asset system showing the culvert inventory, 323 records, with in-service date, estimated useful life, replacement cost, condition, risk rating and inspection comments. Presented in the Asset Management Overview to the Mayor’s Task Force on Infrastructure, 13 June 2024. CivicWeb document 312801.

Terms of reference for the Official Community Plan Steering Committee. Adopted by Council 8 January 2024, amended 22 April 2024. Three pages. Scopes the plan renewal at 18 to 24 months.

Transcript made by H Miller of the delegation by Dr Alex Choi, Medical Health Officer, Vancouver Coastal Health, to Bowen Island Municipal Council on 26 February 2024, on the island’s water systems. 28 pages. Transcribed from the meeting video.

Final draft dated 15 February 2024, brought to Regular Council for information on 26 February 2024. Three pages. Sets the task force up to advise Council on infrastructure.

Islands Trust Area Groundwater Sustainability Science Program, presented to Bowen Island Municipality Regular Council as a delegation on 11 December 2023 by William Shulba, P.Geo, Senior Freshwater Specialist, Islands Trust. 16 slides.

Canada’s implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 2023 Voluntary National Review. 92 pages.

Amends Land Use Bylaw No. 57, 2002. 22 pages. Amends the definitions of agriculture, vineyard and winery, the winery definition requiring at least 50% of production from grapes grown on the same lot or another lot that is part of the same business, and allowing tours, tasting, sales and promotional products. Deletes definitions including agricultural retail. Deletes Section 3.3.1 from Part 3.3, prohibited uses, and renumbers what follows. Replaces the watercourse setbacks at 3.18 to 3.23 with a 30 metre setback from the natural boundary of any watercourse. First reading 14 December 2020, second reading 25 May 2021, public hearing 12 July 2021, third reading 8 November 2021, finally adopted 22 November 2021, in force 1 January 2022. Signed by Mayor Gary Ander and Corporate Officer Hope Dallas.

The issued permit, five pages, signed by the Chief Administrative Officer. The authorizing resolution was passed by Council on 22 March 2021. The permit page carries the line "This is not a building permit".

Two page municipal brochure on development permit areas: how to tell whether a site sits in a DPA, meeting the applicable guidelines, and how to apply. Dated March 2021 in the small print.

Amends Policy 235 of the Official Community Plan to designate all areas within the municipality as temporary use permit areas. First reading 22 June 2020, second reading 27 July, public hearing 27 August, third reading 14 September, finally adopted 13 October 2020. Signed by Mayor Gary Ander and Corporate Officer Hope Dallas. One page. The operative clause cites the plan as Bylaw No. 282, 2002, where the recital gives 2010.

The blank application form as issued by Planning and Development, four pages. Fees shown as $850 initial, $350 amendment, $350 renewal. The footer carries the internal file path it was generated from, ending “2020 TUP Application updated.docx”, so the form is the 2020 version. This copy was taken from the municipal planning pages in 2023. The form in use now differs: it drops the amendment type, adds an application checklist that includes letters from neighbours about the proposed use, sets site plan requirements naming the location of wells, drainage areas, septic fields and watercourses, and adds a section on what happens when the permit expires and how the land is to be restored.

Auditor General of British Columbia, an independent audit report, July 2019. 45 pages. Addressed to the Speaker of the Legislative Assembly.

The zoning bylaw as consolidated for convenience in August 2016, listing every amending bylaw and its adoption date. 171 pages. Useful as the text as it stood before the 2021 amendments: agriculture then excluded intensive agriculture, horticulture and vineyard; the winery definition required 50% of production from grapes grown at the vineyard on the same lot or another lot in the same vineyard business, and capped imported British Columbia grapes at 50% of production; prohibited use 3.3.1 was airports, hovercraft ports and heliports. This copy came from Kwantlen Polytechnic University, which hosts it.

Moving Towards Sustainable Watershed Systems, through Asset Management. Beyond the Guidebook 2015: Towards a Watershed Health Legacy in the Georgia Basin, November 2015. 172 pages. Published by the Partnership for Water Sustainability in British Columbia through the Georgia Basin Inter-Regional Education Initiative, launched in 2012 with five regional districts and two provincial ministries.

Municipal leaflet for households on private wells, opening by saying the Municipality has received reports of wells running dry. One page. The leaflet carries no date of its own; the copy is the 2015 version.

The provincial instrument incorporating Bowen Island Municipality, effective 4 December 1999, as an Island Municipality. 41 pages. Carries over regional district and Local Trust Committee bylaws (12.0, 16.0), requires Council to have regard to the object of the Islands Trust (13.0), makes the municipality a member of the Trust (13.1), provides for two councillors to be selected as municipal trustees (5.1 to 5.4), and sets the referral of official community plan bylaws (14.3) and other bylaws touching the trust policy statement (15.0). This copy was converted from a Word copy held by H Miller.

United States Environmental Protection Agency wastewater technology fact sheet on chlorine disinfection, September 1999. Seven pages. The copy is a scan, so the text cannot be searched.

Prepared by Sussex Consultants Ltd for the Bowen Island Restructure Study Committee, April 1999. 98 pages. The pre-incorporation analysis: what services existed and who decided what, with sections on service providers, private utilities, improvement districts, the Islands Trust, the regional district and the Province; what would not change, including existing land use bylaws; projected municipal budgets and revenues; and tax impacts on homes, businesses and farms, with a chapter on policing costs, infrastructure costs and the shift of taxes to residential property. The proposed boundary took in Hutt and Finisterre islands and left out Bowyer and Passage. Incorporation required a majority vote of electors. CivicWeb document 40478.