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The economics of sharing
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Proposed OCP amendments raise alarm Amendments remove limits on tourist accommodations, open door for camping and trailer parks MERIBETH DEEN EDITOR
On Monday, the former chair of the Official Community Plan (OCP) Steering Committee, Sue Ellen Fast, asked council to respect the community input presented in the plan by refraining to make further amendments to it. In September 2011, the previous municipal council, led by Mayor Bob Turner, passed a series of amendments to the document, originally crafted in 1996. On Artist Josh Van Dyke in his studio. Van Dyke was hoping to attend Capilano University’s Art Institute, but with the closure of the fine arts program at the University, he is looking for Monday, council unanimously opportunity elsewhere. passed another series of changes, Meribeth Deen, photo as recommended by the Economic Development Committee (EDC), through first reading. Fast says she is concerned both about the transparency of the process by which the OCP is being amended, and by the content. “I think these changes will come MERIBETH DEEN at Capilano was coming to an end. Bowen Islander as a big surprise to many islandHans Christian Behm was one of them. On Monday, EDITOR ers,” she says. “I see a watering he asked Bowen’s municipal council to pass a resodown of environmental protection, Less than one year ago, just weeks before the end lution asking the governors of Capilano College to and changes that will lead to urban of term at Capilano University, students in the fine declare a moratorium on the program’s closure. sprawl across the island.” arts program learned that their department was Fast points specifically to changclosing. The younger students enrolled in the Studio continued, PAGE 3 es proposed to “Goal 6” of the Arts program would be able to complete their two“Twelve Fundamental Goals of the year diplomas, but for mature students in the Art OCP,” as an example of the lowerInstitute program, the closure meant their education
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ing of environmental protection as a priority. As the OCP is currently written, Goal 6 is: To manage growth in a way that is conditioned by the natural environment and respects social and economic diversity. The proposed amendment rewrites the goal as: To manage growth in a way that respects social and economic diversity, and the natural and built environments. Fast told council that the OCP Steering Committee “took in over 700 points of community contact” in the form of community meetings, surveys, and individual submissions prior to writing the amendments to the plan. “This is the community’s Official Community Plan,” says Fast. “People told us time and again that they want Bowen to be a green oasis, to keep the parks as parks, and a compact village centre. These amendments make way for the Cove to sprawl and for the north side of the Cove, which is now parkland, to be developed.”
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