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VOL. 48 NO. 45
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Changes considered for development applications PUBLIC NOTICE AND SIGNAGE REQUIREMENTS TO BE REVIEWED ALEX KURIAL Editor
SNOW DAYS: The North Pole - make that Bowen Island - experienced a heavy dumping of snow from morning to nightTuesday.While it made for some impassable roads, disrupted buses, and emptier than usual ferries, everyone made it through the day relatively unscathed. The flurries were gone Wednesday, but there’s no telling when they may return to blanket us in another Winter Wonderland. Keep those shovels close! / Alex Kurial photo
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The municipality is considering changes to how notices are distributed during development applications, with a main goal to move up the public notification portion of the process. The move comes following feedback that neighbours and the public haven’t been consulted, or even made aware of, what is going on with local projects such as temporary use permits, rezonings, or development variance permits, until well into the application process. Currently, public notice is not given until after the matter has been introduced to council. The issue shot to the foreground in recent months following a pair of high profile instances – a temporary use permit application for a light manufacturing facility by Bowen Island Properties, and a lounge application by the Bowen Cider House – where a central argument among neighbours opposed to the applications centred around what they said was a lack of consultation opportunity. It was noted in both cases that the applications observed the rules as written for their applications. But it’s how the rules themselves are enacted that have come under criticism. CONTINUED ON PAGE 3