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Land use · OCP
Decision process activeThe Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw review is moving from broad goals into technical choices that will shape housing, shoreline protection and development.
What changed: A technical and gap-review phase has made the relationship between policy language, mapped development-permit areas and enforceable zoning more visible.
Open the issueThe issue map
Active, unresolved and affecting island life now.
Water · Climate
Current issueSeasonal drought, fragmented water governance and development pressure keep converging on the same question: what can the island reliably support?
Open the issueHousing · Services
Current issueThe island is discussing integrated strategy, worker housing and specific sites at the same time, but responsibilities remain split among agencies.
Open the issueProcesses where timing matters and the record is still developing.
Governance · Environment
Election-year decisionThe draft Trust Policy Statement has revived a foundational argument about preservation, housing, local autonomy and what the regional mandate requires.
Open the issueNew records or explanations that changed what we know.
Roads · Transportation
Recently clarifiedMaintenance, safety, pathways and harbour access cross provincial and local responsibilities, creating recurring confusion about who can actually act.
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