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FRIDAY, MAY 9, 2025
VOL. 51 NO. 19
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OCP public engagement period is now open LAST REVIEW OF PLAN WAS 2011 ALEX KURIAL Editor
SOUTH BEACH STYLE The Bowen Island Yacht Club celebrated Opening Day of their sailing season with a Miami Vice themed party on Saturday, complete with outfits that would have made Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs proud. Activities included a parade of vessels conducting a Sailpast of club Commodore Simon Fowler (far left) and his crew aboard NautiNess, followed by a party back at the USSC Marina. We’ll have more photos of the nautical fun in next week’s Island Wide paper. / Alex Kurial photo
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The foundational piece of the island’s planning vision is getting a refresh. A review of Bowen’s Official Community Plan (OCP) begins this week. The document serves as the building blocks for all planning decisions on the island, from environmental preservation to rezonings, density and commercial placements, and much more. Council discussion on local projects frequently reference one or more OCP points as rationale for or against a decision. “It can be used to show where future growth should go, and then people could apply to rezone their properties to match the OCP. The OCP can even provide guidance of what types of rezonings you’d want to see,” says the municipality’s manager of planning Daniel Martin. “So not only is this where growth could happen, but we want these types of growth to occur, or to this level, or whatever that vision is.” CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
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