Update/status report (verbal) from Development Services staff - Changes to the Provincial Private Moorage Program:
Recommendations from the April 4 2017 Electoral Area Directors meeting were endorsed by the Board:
1. M/S Directors Talbot/Martin THAT:
a letter be sent to Premier Christy Clark and to Steve Thompson, Minister of Forests
Lands and Natural Resource Operations, and MLA Greg Kyllo, outlining CSRD
concerns with the changes to the Private Moorage Program, lack of consultation
with local government about the changes, and requesting that Shuswap and Mara
lakes be designated as an application-only area for private moorage.
CARRIED
DIRECTOR MORGAN OPPOSED
STATUS: The letter was sent May 8, 2017. Development Services staff subsequently met with staff from the Ministry of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations in Kamloops in June 2017 to discuss the letter. Staff will provide a verbal summary of this meeting.
2. M/S Directors Martin/Parker THAT:
a letter be sent to UBCM outlining CSRD concerns regarding the changes to the
Provincial Private Moorage Program, and that the letter be copied to SILGA and the
District of Coldstream.
CARRIED
STATUS: The letter was sent May 10, 2017.
3. M/S Directors Martin/Talbot THAT:
CSRD staff be directed to prepare communications regarding Lakes Zoning Bylaw
No. 900 to remind the public of the CSRD bylaw requirements for docks, buoys
and other foreshore structures.
CARRIED
STATUS: An ad was published in newspapers covering Electoral Areas C, E and F in June 2017. CSRD social media was also utilized.
Letters were sent August 23, 2017 to companies that are known to complete dock, swimming platform, and buoy work in the Columbia and Shuswap areas.