council correspondence may 8-14, 2015
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COUNCIL CORRESPONDENCE
May 8-14, 2015
CORRESPONDENCE RECEIVED
1. Letter dated May 1, 2015 from Seashore Organic Medicine Inc. regarding proposed Bylaw amendment
May 8, 2015
Pg 3
2. Letter dated May 1, 2015 from Spark BC regarding Access Awareness Day
May 8, 2015
Pg 4-5
3. Letter dated May 8, 2015 from Tercel Telecom Ltd regarding offer of service
May 8, 2015
Pg 6
4. Email dated May 8, 2015 from Frank Modena regarding offer of service
May 8, 2015
Pg 7
5. Email dated May 12, 2015 from AVICC regarding Invitation to BC Seafood Expo
May 12, 2015
Pg 8-10
6. Email dated May 12, 2015 from Bob and Patty Hoffman regarding Vagrancy in Sechelt
May 12, 2015
Pg 11
7. Email dated May 12, 2015 from Chuck Gould regarding parking on Selma Park Road
May 12, 2015
Pg 12
8. Email dated May 12, 2015 from Peter Rice regarding parking on Selma Park Road
May 12, 2015
Pg 13
9. Email dated May 13, 2015 from AGLG regarding 2015-16 Annual Service Plan
May 13, 2015
Pg 14-16
10. Letter dated May 13, 2015 from Elphinstone Logging Focus regarding Wilson Creek Watershed
May 13, 2015
Pg 17-18
11. Email dated May 13, 2015 from Michael Metcalfe regarding Parking Selma Park Road
May 13, 2015
Pg 19-20
12. Email dated May 13, 2015 from Telus regarding Healthy Sustainable Communities
May 13, 2015
Pg 21
13. Email dated May 13, 2015 from Terry Rodgers regarding Parking on Selma Park Road
May 13, 2015
Pg 22
14. Letter dated May 13, 2015 from DBWCSP Community Association regarding Dark Sky Designation support
May 8, 2015
Pg 23
15. Email dated May 14, 2015 from Elphinstone Logging Focus regarding Mushroom Forest
May 14, 2015
Pg 24-25
16. Email dated May 14, 2015 from Evan Tait regarding Parking on Selma Park Road
May 14, 2014
Pg 26
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S I-i c r CD rgUnit #101 — 5682 Wharf Street, P0 Box 801, Sechelt, BC VON 3A0 604-885-5500
May 1, 2015
District of SecheltPC Box 129Sechelt, BC VON 3AO
RE: MEDICAL MARIJUANA PROPOSED BYLAW
Dear Mayor and Council:
We attended the recent public information meetings related to the proposed bylaw amendment thatwould see Medical Marijuana facilities, licensed under the Health Canada Medical Marijuana ProductionRegulations (MMPR), relocated to Agricultural Land from the existing Light Industrial designation.
The community feedback we observed, indicated that the community is not opposed to MedicalMarijuana in Light Industrial, and do not want to see Agricultural land used for that purpose due to thestringent production regulations required by Health Canada.
We would request that the District of Sechelt reconfirm our use of the land we recently purchased at Lot11, 5500 Sechelt Inlet Crescent. Further we request that the Council rescind the first reading of thisproposed bylaw amendment. There does not appear to be any reason to move forward to publichearings. This would enable our company to continue to invest in the District according to our originalplan Dresented to the District one year ago.
IiE5MAY 0 8 2015
Seashore Organic Medicine Inc.
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-9 Accesi.biu1isWorkin_gAccess Awareness Da 2015
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MAYOR AND COUNCIL ( 08 2015P0 BOX 129 I-,!
SECHELT BC VON 3A0 3oDISTRICT OF SECHELT
May 1, 2015
Dear Mayor and Council:
RE: Access Awareness Day—June 6, 2015—Is Accessibility Working in Your Community?
June 6, 2015 marks SPARC BC’s 18th annuaL Access Awareness Day! Access Awareness Day
gives each of us an opportunity to took at our communities and to think about what we can
do to make our communities more accessible and inclusive for everyone!
The theme for this year’s Access Awareness Day is “Accessibility is Working”. As part of this
year’s Access Awareness Day, our goat is to draw attention to leading practices and Local
innovation across BC communities with a focus on working together to help ensure that our
communities are as accessible and inclusive as possible.
Each year we ask local governments to help support Access Awareness Day by passing a
procLamation that recognizes the rights of all individuals to be active in their communities
and to have the opportunity to participate in all aspects of community life. We hope you will
consider adopting a proclamation that confirms your on-going commitment and support for
building accessible and inclusive communities together.
As in the past, we have created a “Leadership space” on our website where we recognize
municipalities and organizations that have joined with us to promote Access Awareness Day.
Our website lists municipalities that have recognized Access Awareness Day through an
annual proclamation or letter of support.
As part of this year’s Access Awareness Day activities, our goal is to profile initiatives where
accessibility is working. If you have a story or initiative that you feet is a good example of how
social planning & research council of british columbia
4445 Norfolk St. Burnaby, BC V56 0A7 Canada tel: 604-718-7733 lax: 604-736-8697 www.sparc.bc.ca
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communities can work together to promote greater accessibility, please share it with us and
we will help to promote it through our networks and with our members.
We also know that accessibility is something that is achieved by working together. Please
join us in making this year’s Access Awareness Day one of the best and help us to ensure
that accessibility is working for everyone! If you have an idea or would like more information
about how we could work together to advance shared accessibility goals, please do not
hesitate to contact Alla Timofeyeva at 604-718-7735 or send an email to mycommunity@sparc. bc.ca.
Thank you for your support. We look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
d\AoL CçoLorraine Copas
Executive Director
EncLosure:
Sample Proclamation
SPARC BC Access Awareness Day Poster
:sparc bcpeople. planning. posiUve change.
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IJEC3EINiJEDDear Mayor and Council MAY 08 2015
ISTRICT OF SECHELT
I am the manager of Tercel Telecom Ltd, located in Richmond, B.C. We are asupplier and service provider for fibre optics technologies. On behalf of the company, Iwould like to take this opportunity to make a proposal. It is a proposal that could benefitevery citizen in your town. It would actually greatly improve people’s lives.
As a whole, Canada has had a really late start for fiber technology compared to the rest ofthe world. Authorities have realized this trend and have already implemented tremendousinvestments to expand fibre optics throughout BC. However, major service providers areskipping a lot these towns. In fact, according to them, these communities are not cost-effective projects. They are merely interested in more populated cities. It would take upto 10 years before anything could be done.
We represent “Fiber Home Group”, one of the largest manufacturer and producer in theworld for fibre technologies such as fibre cables and GPON. Tercel Telecom would liketo take up the responsibilities of laying fiber in your community. Our goal is to bring highspeed internet and optic TV all across rural BC. Since we are already a global supplier forfiber, and we have reliable local fiber contractors, it would make a lot of sense to team upwith the local municipalities to make these projects happen. We are able to invest moneyand equipment. We can guarantee the quality and competitive prices when working withthe government. I hope we can work towards establishing a win-win cooperation.
Best Regards,Will Deng
Tercel Telecom LtdOffice: 6042737744Cell: 6047732188Email: Terceltelecomgmail.com#8-293 1 Viking Way, Richmond, B.CV6V 1Y1
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From: Frank Modena [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2015 9:20 AM To: Council
Subject: City Strategic Objective & Performance Management Framework Designer
Dear Mr. Milne, For past two decades I’ve been working hard with Canadian municipal governments focusing on City Strategic Objective & Performance Monitoring initiatives. As result, I have designed ‘best-practice’ City Strategic Objective/Performance Management Framework, applicable to needs of all city departments as well as executive committees. Major Benefits for Municipal Governments:
Better government incentives for capital and operating budget allocations to municipality
City Administration and Executive Committees will be able to see ‘real-time-big-picture’ of city department/service operational performance, mapped to Strategic Goals and Objectives
City Departmental Directors will be able to closely monitor and dynamically act upon departmental performance against planned objectives
KPI & Balanced Scorecard Dashboards for Executive Finance Committee, Council and Public If it sparkle your interest, please suggest your best availability and I’ll schedule for touch-base conversation. Regards, Frank Modena City Strategic Objective & Performance Management Framework Designer Vancouver, BC [email protected]
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From: Iris Hesketh-Boles [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 2:16 PM Subject: Invitation to AVICC Members - BC Seafood Expo and Workshop Series - Comox Valley
Please forward to Elected Officials, the CAO and any senior staff who may be interested in attending: The following message and attachment is distributed to AVICC Members as a member-to-member communication on behalf of Comox Mayor Paul Ives. ----------------------- Good afternoon AVICC Members,
The BC Seafood Expo and Workshop Series (June 13 & 14), has been developed in partnership
with aquaculture industry, to bring leading producers, distributors and buyers together with
community leaders, scientists and academics, to discuss the importance of the industry to coastal
communities and explore innovations, challenges and opportunities within the seafood sector.
This is being held as one of numerous events during the 9th
annual BC Shellfish and Seafood
Festival (June 12-21), Comox Valley, Vancouver Island.
The Expo includes a BC Coastal Community Mayors’ and Chairs’ Breakfast, being hosted by
Town of Comox Mayor Paul Ives, the Flying Lobster Expo Opening Reception, unique industry
and general public workshop sessions presented by 30+ experts, and a keynote luncheon with Dr.
John Nightingale, CEO, Vancouver Aquarium.
Details and registration links below and attached.
We hope you can attend and thank you for your consideration.
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MAY 2015
Register Today - BC Seafood Expo and Workshop Series
The trade Expo is bringing together 30+ leading speakers in aquaculture and seafood science & research, distribution & export, economics & international trade. This is a unique opportunity for Pacific Northwest industry reps to discuss these and other challenges and opportunities, while developing sales and business networks at VIP events and site tours.
Buy your Expo Passport now and receive admission to:
BC Coastal Community Mayors' & Chairs' Breakfast Flying Lobster Extravaganza & Expo Opening Reception Keynote Luncheon; Dr. John Nightingale, CEO, Vancouver Aquarium All sessions in Workshop Series
View Schedule at a Glance here.
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Expo News
Expo Brings Significant Businesses and Leaders in Aquaculture to Vancouver Island
BC Seafood Expo Article - Panorama Acuicola
Modern Fish and Seafood Act Released
View Fanny Bay Oysters & The Shellfish Opportunities Video
Good Life Vancouver and the BC Shellfish and Seafood Festival
Invest Comox Valley
Phone: 250.334.2427
#200 - 580 Duncan Ave, Courtenay BC V9N2M7
STAY IN TOUCH
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From: Patty [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:30 AM To: Council
Subject: Fwd: Village Vagrancy
Honourable Mayor and Council,
We request that you take the time to read our recent letter to the Editor of the Coast Reporter
(below) regarding the vagrants in our neighborhood.
We should not have to watch this type of activity in our own backyards! We can't tolerate this
for much longer!
There's obviously a huge problem with our bylaws if the Police have no power to remove these
people from living in our alleys and right of ways.
We implore you to acknowledge this problem and bring it to the attention of Council at the
next meeting.
If we don't make some changes to our bylaws we will end up with a huge problem in our
Village with feces, fires, theft and who knows what else? Our community deserves better than
this!
Thank you for considering this problem and we anticipate that you will rectify it in due haste.
Bob & Patty Hoffman
Trail Avenue, Sechelt BC
PLEASE READ FWD LETTER BELOW
-------- Original message --------
From: Patty <[email protected]>
Date: 05-11-2015 8:32 PM (GMT-08:00)
Subject: Village Vagrancy
We live in the village of Sechelt, and recently observed some transients or homeless people in
our backyard. I am not able to accurately describe what was witnessed by ourselves and our
Senior neighbours except to say that they were fornicating in full view. The woman who spent
the night with the fellow proceeded to strip naked in the morning to change clothes. We later
passed her near the Clinic.
After several attempts to have the RCMP remove them from Sherlock Park, behind the Seniors
Activity Center on Trail Avenue, we have given up. We were told that because there is no
vagrancy bylaw, there's nothing that can be done.
We realize that there is a problem keeping the Hostel open year round, and there but for the
Grace of God go you or I, but something should be done to make changes before the summer
season hits us full force. If all of us can pull together on this we can help to keep our
neighbourhood safe.
Mr. and Mrs. R. Hoffman
Sechelt
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From: Chuck Gould [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 11:10 PM To: Information Request; Bruce Milne; Michael Metcalfe; Evan Tait; [email protected]; Terry Rodgers Subject: parking on lower selma park--petition from SCRD to Council to allow permit parking to Trail Island residents on Selma Park Road Mayor & Council The reason the last Council decided to put in resident only parking was because of the abuse from the owners with boat trailers on the back of their vehicles who could not facilitate parking their car and trailer in spaces on a half road....They choose to park length wise so one van and trailer alone took up 1/3 of the total parking.....taking up to 6 spaces for cars which could angle park......These people also can be verified by your bi law officer who regularly visited and witnessed situations where the trailer and vehicle was left for a week to 10 days at a time .....It took us 2 years to get council to react....Councillor Inkster when Mayor was responsible for forcing Mot to cover the pipes installed facilitating parking for residents....I own the residences at 5413 and 5415 Selma Park Road.....I do not even have a driveway to my homes......So i would most likely end up having to park on the Hiway while just two vans with boat trailers took up 2/3 the parking.....Your bi law officers were sent dozens of photos of 72 hour violations taken by our residents of trailers and vehicles left for weeks at a time.......Bi law officers told us they could not ticket or tow with out signage as that was the common law for parking in Sechelt.....These folks do not simply put their boats in the water and then take their trailers home.....They think its their privilege to tie up parking for over a week at a time while they vacation on the trail islands or some other nearby island leaving their vehicle and boat trailer.....They are not full time residents on the island....I do know one resident named Peter who pays for moorage at Wilson Creek for his boat and parks in Wilson Creek...He seems fine with that!.....The Sib should be approached by SCRD and asked if they will rent spaces that are ample for the 25 residents...either metered or pay parking......The decision to do residents only parking was studied at length by your bi law officers and the Administration...We know the problem is Boat trailers and vehicles....Any person who visited here would realize their is insufficient room for trailers to be parked....They simply cannot accomodate angle parking on a half road.....Prior to the parking being created by MOT under the supervision of District of Sechelt Engineering.....Where did the Trail Island residents park?.....They parked for 20 years in the same spot they are parking now and should be....ON THE SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY WHERE THEY ALWAYS PARKED....They are where they belong...Certainly the residents and SCRD can approach Sib and ask about pay parking for these part time cottage owners on the Trail Islands or other islands or pay for parking and moorage in Wilson Creek...Their are options.....but not on Selma Park Road....The Situation was studied at length by Bi law officers and the Administration staff at City Hall....They have the photos, they recorded the abuse....They were regularly visiting and answering complaints....This all stopped when the residents only parking signs went up allowing for 24 hour maximum parking for non residents.....Get it....24 hours....not weeks or weekends 24 hours ....So the boat trailers and vehicles ended up back on the highway where they did not clog up Selma Park ....Horseshoe Bay prohibits any overnight parking on any residential street for non residents period...So people park in a pay lot......At least their is a option on the highway for those who wish to park for more than 24 hours....its on the highway Regards Charles Gould 5413 Selma Park Rd 5415 Selma Park Rd
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From: Peter Rice [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 12, 2015 5:37 PM To: Information Request
Cc: Chuck Gould; '[email protected]' Subject: Fwd: visit today from two SCRD staff
To Mayor & Council:
Please take note of this request regarding parking on Lower Selma Park Road.
Regards,
Peter
-------- Forwarded Message --------
Subject: visit today from two SCRD staff
Date: Tue, 12 May 2015 17:22:39 -0700
From: Peter Rice <[email protected]>
To: Chuck Gould <[email protected]>, '[email protected]'
<[email protected]>, Bruce Milne <[email protected]>
Hi Chuck:
Two people from SCRD came to my door this morning. They said they were canvassing the
residents in our street as to how receptive we would be to giving the folks who have property
(approximately 25) on Trail Island an exemption to park in the road from my place down to
outside your place. The Trail Island folks had petitioned SCRD (why them - do they now have
jurisdiction in our street!!!) and in turn, the SCRD had prepared a report and sent it to Sechelt
District for an OK. Someone at DOS had told them to talk to the residents. Mike is not too
happy and no doubt you and Marcus are not thrilled.
I told them there was not enough room as it is and I am most definitely not in favour. They said
we could assign a few spots for the Trail Island residents and only for them. I don't think they
grasp the point that Trail Island folks often park a vehicle and a boat trailer. Managing this
arrangement would be a nightmare.
I suggest you and Mike and Marcus get talking to SCRD and DOS and give them your
thoughts. I am not sure who at DOS told them to talk to the Selma Park residents. No doubt
Bruce would know.
Question: why does it take two SCRD employees to come and knock at our doors? Could they
not send letters out? And the taxes continue to go up...
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Virk, Pardeep AGLG:EX [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of van Iersel, Arn AGLG:EX
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 11:15 AM Subject: Upcoming Release of Annual Service Plan
Sent on behalf of Arn van Iersel, A/ Auditor General for Local Government.
Greetings to all,
Please find attached correspondence regarding the upcoming release of our 2015/16 annual
service plan.
Best regards,
Arn van Iersel CPA, FCGA
A/Auditor General for Local Government
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201 – 10470 152nd
Street
Surrey, BC V3R 0Y3
Phone: 604-930-7100
Fax: 604-930-7128
www.aglg.ca
May 13, 2015 Ref.: 158277
To: Mayors and Councillors
Chairs and Directors of Regional District Boards
Chairs and Directors of Greater Boards
Greetings to All:
Re: Annual Service Plan for 2015/16 - 2017/18
I am pleased to advise you that the Auditor General for Local Government annual service plan
for the period 2015/16 - 2017/18 will be released on our website www.aglg.ca at 11:00 am on
Thursday, May 14.
I want to thank local governments for their cooperation and support during this year of transition
for the office.
As the recently-appointed acting Auditor General for Local Government, I appreciate this
opportunity to reflect on the office’s accomplishments to date, the challenges it has faced, and
the plans we are developing to address those challenges and move the office forward to carry out
its important mandate.
This plan sets out the work we will undertake over the next year to reflect on the office’s work to
date and identify specific measures we can institute to improve the office’s outcomes in the
future. Key questions we will explore include the following:
What is a reasonable number of performance audits for this office to complete each year?
How can the office meet the timelines set out for its audit work while maintaining the
required standards and quality of the audit report?
What is the right balance for the office in terms of internal staff resources and reliance on
contractors, such as for specialist activities?
How can we get the most out of the audit planning work we carry out with local
governments and how should this be updated to set the office’s audit priority over the
next few years?
What opportunities are there for the office to focus more of its energies on audit work and
developing AGLG Perspectives booklets as opposed to administration?
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During 2015/16, we will develop answers to each of these questions and others, while continuing
with ongoing performance audit work. The answers, together with input from yourselves, will
inform our approach for the balance of the period covered by this plan.
While the task ahead is challenging, it is also one that is filled with opportunity.
I welcome feedback from local governments on all aspects of the work of our office, so I look
forward to your comments on our plan for this year. Please feel free to send your comments to
[email protected] or call the office at 604-930-7100.
Best Regards,
Arn van Iersel, CPA, FCGA
A/Auditor General for Local Government
pc: Chief Administrative Officers
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From: Elphinstone Logging Focus [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 10:19 AM To: Bruce Milne; Council
Cc: Glen Bonderud; [email protected] Subject: Wilson Watershed Peer Review question and reply
In reply to Glen Bonerud's letter (Board, Sunshine Coast Community Forest logging
operation: SCCF), regarding whether or not the report 'Wilson Creek Watershed
Assessment' was peer reviewed, ELF is of the position that the report does not meet
the gold standard of a peer review. Although, as he sites, the author of the report did
invite 3 professionals to read the report on the state of The Wilson, and they
participated in several field trips, ELF and others, sense that this engagement with the
material does not meet the test of what an objective peer review.
These are well respected researchers, however, whatever comments they may have
made regarding the report are not sighted. A higher standard for a 'Peer Review Team'
is for members not to be invited by the author, to write their own independent report
to be made available to elected officials and the public, due to the subject being a
public asset, ie: forests, water quality and fisheries.
A peer review report comments on whether the study used commonly accepted
scientific methodologies for the type of study being undertaken, in this case the
attempt was to conduct a 'Coastal Watershed Assessment Procedure' (CWAP).
In 1997, when the GVRD (now Metro Vancouver) conducted a forest management
assessment of their 3 watersheds, a peer review team (lead by Dr. Peter Pearse)
published an independent report, 'Protecting Vancouver's Water'. Their conclusions
highlighted several keys findings that were overlooked in the main study, which
became instrumental in phasing out logging as a forest management tool. If the 3
individuals who read the SCCF's report had been tasked with the same level of
scrutiny that the GVRD asked of their peer review team, they would have compared
SCCF's version of a CWAP, against the industry-standard MOF (Ministry of Forests)
CWAP and found it wanting on several fronts.
SCCF admitted in a 2012 Press Release that their CWAP would not match the MOF
stringent version - it would be 'an equivalent' - in other words, expect missing
pieces One omission that the reviewers of The Wilson study should have flagged as
an important feature of a CWAP, is, as quoted in: "Section 1: (6) Forest Development
Plan Recommendations: Specific recommendations made by the Hydrologist for the
forest development plan."
The Wilson Watershed Assessment study provided no forestry recommendations from
its author (a P.E.), leaving the gates wide open for continued logging in The
Wilson. An objective peer review team would have brought this omission to the
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logging company owner's, attention - namely The District of Sechelt. Lacking, a forest
management plan based on the hydrologist's study, and left to Mr. Dave Lasser of
SCCF, will mean that the majority of the Wilson Watershed will be logged over time,
as seen by 6 new cutblocks planned. So, in our estimation, Horel's peers did not step
up and ask the hard questions that a true Peer Review Team should have.
Ross Muirhead
Elphinstone Logging Focus
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From: Michael Metcalfe [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 12:06 PM To: Council
Cc: Peter Rice; Chuck Gould; [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Selma Park Road Parking
Mayor & Council,
District of Sechelt
5797 Cowrie Street,
Sechelt, BC
Dear Mayor Milne & Councillors,
We are writing to express our concern regarding a request from property owners on the Trail
Islands to have parking allocated on lower Selma Park Road.
As you know, there are nine properties on this block, from the highway to the bottom of Selma
Park Road, along which a single lane provides access. There is only enough parallel parking
available for a maximum of 8 cars, which is less than one parking space per household. Two of
the homes have no on site parking at all and are required to park on the lane. The property lines
in this area are extremely close to the lane, which makes it impossible to park on the side of the
lane by the houses, as well, there is a prominent Telus box with two cement barriers.
This part of Selma Park Road has a considerable amount of traffic throughout the day, especially
in the summer. The traffic regularly consists of people using the boat launch located on SIB land,
to drive to the end to look at the view, to turn around, to stop to use cell phones, etc. Between the
highway and the entrance to the boat launch is a tight spot, where there can be no parking at all.
One of the big problems with allowing parking with trailers is the enormous space that this
requires. Because of their limited maneuverability they require additional space far beyond their
length. As well, in the past, two of the regular boaters have parked their vehicles and trailers on
the block for extended periods of time of up to three weeks. When we have spoken with the
owners of the vehicles, their attitudes have ranged from antagonistic to hostile towards our
concerns. It had been a constantly stressful situation facing us daily!
Since the creation of our neighbourhood parking spots (with signage and parking regulations),
we have not had any parking issues. Our neighbourhood is small, it is a caring place, where we
all know each other and are aware of and polite about each others’ needs. Living here and using
Lower Selma Park Road many times daily, we understand that our road is single lane, difficult to
negotiate and must be driven at a slower speed. As well, we are cognizant of how vehicles
should be parked in order to accommodate for as many as possible and recognize how to
carefully pull out from driveways. These things are not understood or acted upon by others using
this road.
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Prior to the highway improvement, which required a drainage culvert to replace the ditch, and in
doing so, added the gravel parking area, the Trail Island owners could not park on Selma Park
Road, but made other arrangements. This parking area has only existed for a few years.
In almost all areas of Sechelt, residents have access to parking in front of their homes on their
blocks. We feel strongly that we should be afforded the same access.
Additionally, the Sechelt Nation, on which the boat launch sits, has an enormous empty lot above
the launch. We would suggest the Trail Island owners negotiate with the Sechelt Nation to
provide parking.
As citizens of the District of Sechelt, we ask that our limited parking remain as it is.
Sincerely,
Michael & Jane Metcalfe
5405 Selma Park Road
Sechelt, B.C.
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From: K. Grace Howard [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Maureen Kirkbride
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 3:45 PM To: Bruce Milne; Doug Wright; Noel Muller; Darren Inkster; Mike Shanks; Alice Lutes; Darnelda Siegers
Cc: Bill Beamish; Lisa LaMothe Subject: TELUS: Helping to create healthier, more sustainable communities
Dear Mayor Milne and Council, I am proud to share with you TELUS’ newly-released Sustainability Report. This Report measures and tracks our progress toward creating a more sustainable future and holds us publicly accountable for the outcome. Key areas of focus include:
Taking action to reduce our absolute energy consumption and GHG emissions
Investing in and collaborating with our team and our communities
Strengthening our governance, transparency and disclosure practices
Expanding our network to improve reliability and accessibility for all customers, including remote communities
Enhancing our efforts with respect to product stewardship.
If you are interested in our progress toward these goals – or are looking for ways to track your own community’s sustainability journey – I would encourage you to take a moment to review this Report. And if you have any questions about TELUS’ presence in your municipality, please don’t hesitate to contact our local General Manager, Lisa LaMothe, at (604) 643-4015 or [email protected].
Warm regards, Maureen
Maureen Kirkbride Director-Government Relations, TELUS 2nd Floor-768 Seymour Street Vancouver, BC V6B 3K9 Phone: 604 697-8060 (o); 604 219-8014 (c) Email: [email protected]
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From: Terry Rodgers [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 4:27 PM To: Council
Cc: Peter Rice; Chuck Gould; [email protected]; Michael Metcalfe Subject: Selma Park Road Parking
Sensitivity: Confidential
Dear Mayor Milne & Councilors
We are writing to protest any change of the current parking restrictions on lower Selma Park
Road from ‘residents only’ to a more public use. The area in question is barely adequate for use
by the actual homeowners along the short stretch of lane between the highway and the end of the
road.
The road itself is a single lane, little bigger than a back lane or alley between blocks of homes, it
is a dead end, there is parking only on the north side of the lane, and there is no public beach
access from the road to the water through any of the 8 or 9 properties on the water side.
Restrictive parking for residents only is entirely in keeping with best practices by cities in
neighbourhoods where parking is limited and local homeowners are given priority use through a
permitting process.
We believe that the parking should continue to be restricted to residents only and that this
regulation should be strictly enforced by the SCRD. There is decidedly NOT enough room to
accommodate the extended parking requirements of non-residents who need to park large
vehicles and boat trailers for weeks at a time. It is intrusive, disruptive to the neighbourhood and
disrespectful of the tax-paying homeowners along the road.
Furthermore, the Sechelt Indian Band owns a large, mostly unused parking lot at the entrance to
the boat launch facility and this seems like a logical alternative for the boaters to use. There is
absolutely no need to commandeer the limited space on Selma Park Road’s tiny laneway when
there are probably 2 acres of mostly vacant parking space available immediately adjacent to the
marina and boat launch.
We understand there are other options as well. For example, secure, gated storage is available at
Popeye’s and it has been suggested that once a boat is launched, it can be taken around to the day
wharf in Sechelt while an accompanying party member drives vehicle and trailer to a parking
facility in Sechelt. I’m sure the SCRD could make arrangements for longer term parking for such
folks and there is local car and taxi service to serve the needs as well.
In other words, there is no pressing need to remove the ‘residents only’ designation from the
parking on lower Selma Park Road.
Yours truly
Terry & Brad Rodgers
5411 Selma Park Road
Sechelt, BC 604-240-1713
District of Sechelt
Council Correspondence
May 8-14, 2015
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Davis Bay —Wilson Creek —Selma ParkCommunity Association
5123 Davis Bay RoadSechelt B.C. VON 3A2
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Davis Bay/Wilson Creek/Selma Park Community Association5123 Davis Bay Road, Sechelt, BC VON 3A2
Mayor Mime and Council Members,
Members of our Association hosted speakers Charles Ennis and Mike Bradley from the Sunshine CoastCentre of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada at our April meeting.
We were most impressed by their presentation and would like to offer our support in their endeavour tohave the Sunshine Coast be one of the first “Dark Sky Designations” in British Columbia.
Support of the Mayor and Council to encourage this project would be much appreciated. Communitysupport is vital to preserve and improve our dark sky environment.
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Margaret Community Association
District of Sechelt
Council Correspondence
May 8-14, 2015
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From: Elphinstone Logging Focus [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 11:57 PM To: Bruce Milne; Council
Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; dlasser; Glen Bonderud Subject: URGENT: Will SCCF log a high-value mushroom forest in The Wilson?
Dear Mayor and DOS Council,
Please note below Grace Paul's comments from the shishlah land use plan (2007) where she
points out that forests off Field Rd, Sechelt had some of the best pine mushroom sites she
knew of, but when she went back the area had been logged.
SCCF's EW28, or as we call it 'The Chanterelle Forest', is also up Field Rd. and is known,
coast-wide, as one of the best mushroom growing sites. This area could very well be a
connecting forest to the area that Grace Paul is referring to.
Will DOS intervene and ensure that this forest will not be clearcut logged? Mayor &
Council, 'The Chanterelle Forest' should be considered an Urban-Forest as its only a 10
min. drive from the Wilson Creek-IGA Plaza.
SCCF refuses to tell the community where they will begin logging next, but it will be
somewhere in the Wilson Creek Watershed.
Log hauling is almost complete in Angus and Burnett Creeks, so Wilson is next on their
rotation. The community will not stand by and watch this key forest get hammered by
chainsaws.
How do you place a timber $ value on an area that's irreplaceable? Mayor Milne is an
economist, he knows that a business case must include line items of pre-existing assets.
As it stands now, 'The Chanterelle Forest' has a value of between 8-9K per ha in on-going
environmental services. These are on-going yearly services. At an area of approx. 30Ha. the
people of Sechelt are receiving $270,000 in environmental services per year. Scaled over 10
years that's 2.7Million in tangible benefits. These are well accepted numbers in
environmental economic circles.
See a TD Economics Special Report on the value of trees in an urban forest to the City of
Toronto: http://www.td.com/document/PDF/economics/special/UrbanForests.pdf
To be honest if the area is logged, there won't be any jobs or economic activity from the
clearcut until its logged next - so for 70-80 years 0 value is produced at this site. Ask
yourself what is the better deal for Sechelt? Who knows what the state of the world will be
like in 80 years. Will climate change continue to raise its ugly head and we as a society will
look back at our ignorance at the role that forests do play in carbon sequestering and in
regulating our atmosphere.
District of Sechelt
Council Correspondence
May 8-14, 2015
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Don't fall for the mistake that extraction societies are blinded by: that is that a forest has
$0 value until it's logged.
Please ask/demand of Dave Lasser information on where SCCF is planning to log next, and
let the community know what is happening before shishalh and their neighbors lose
another valuable, wild mushroom growing site.
Thank you for your vigilance and reasoned position on this matter.
Ross Muirhead (ELF)
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Box 10: Selected Quotes from shíshálh Nation Members on Forest Resources ƒ from pg 51
shishalh Nation land Use Plan June 2007
http://www.shishalh.com/docuploads/rights-and-title/Proactive-Planning----shishalh-First-
Nation-Strategic-Land-Use-Plan-1424411827-1.pdf
"We’ve always logged, our people have always been loggers. We’ve harvested timber, but
within a balanced, sustainable way". (Candace Campo) ƒ
"No logging near creeks… because over time it ruins the creeks and fish. In these days they
should learn from the mistakes of the past no logging to close to the main creeks, and spawning
creeks. (Clarke Joe) ƒ
"Up by Field Road I picked pine mushrooms there. They said it’s not supposed to be logged, and
they are logging it! It said no logging here and there, and when I go up they have logged it. So
any way we want to make money, we can’t because they are ruining the areas." (Grace Paul) ƒ
"[Forestry] by our people anyway, and our companies". (Albert Louie) ƒ
"What is important to me is our forests, old growth mostly, cedar, because we used the cedar for
making baskets and using traditional regalia with them". (Rita Poulsen) ƒ
" I hope our culture carries on, don’t shoot down our culture, it’s our future, I hope there’s more
carvers in the future, more basket weavers, it’s a dying breed" (Jamie Jeffries) ƒ
"It [forestry] has got to be used for value added—for our people. It’s not going to us; it’s not a
value to us at all". (Dave Quinn) ƒ
"Something we are not doing, but we should is logging for ourselves and our homes, that’s what
I’d like to see with logging. When I think to myself, everybody is trying to live as cheaply as
possible, but we’re not. We really need to be self supporting, we’re not doing that."(Anne Quinn)
District of Sechelt
Council Correspondence
May 8-14, 2015
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From: Evan Tait [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2015 4:12 PM To: Council
Cc: 'Peter Rice'; 'Terry Rodgers'; 'Chuck Gould'; 'Michael Metcalfe' Subject: lower Selma Park Rd
Dear Mayor Milne & Councilors
I am writing today to voice my concerns over any changes to the current parking situation on lower Selma Park Rd. We are constantly affected by the activities of the boat launch on the SIB land and are for the most part accepting of this, but to give up any of what little parking we have to non residents is troubling. During the winter and early spring the parking is adequate but in the late spring, summer and fall the area is very busy and a challenge for resident and guests of residents to find parking. Having a truck and boat trailer take the space of 3 cars greatly affects the situation, also due to the narrow street it makes it impossible to back a boat trailer into our driveways, at least when its residents parked there we can accommodate each other on this and move vehicles, but when its a vehicle that is parked for a extended period of time nothing can be done. If you drive down the street you will notice that we angle park, that is an example of how we all cooperate with each other to solve the parking problems on the street. I am aware of the letters that my neighbors have written so I don't have to repeat what they have said as they have said it very well, but I will add this, Sechelt and the Sunshine Coast have an economy that benefits greatly from tourist visits and our guests are tourist visits.
Sincerely, Evan Tait
5409 Selma Park Road
Sechelt, B.C.
District of Sechelt
Council Correspondence
May 8-14, 2015
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