Council sets CRC Planning Principles & Objectives
Overarching Principles
I. For Bowen Islanders, CRC represents a unique and special place, and as such every effort should be made to ensure that through the development of the lands, a legacy, in the form of a significant park designation, is secured for the long term benefits the community;
II. The development of the CRC land contributes to and fosters a strong sense of community, respects the land's natural environment, and minimizes the development footprint on the land; and
III. The Island wide impacts of a comprehensive development plan for CRC must be identified and understood whereby such impacts, particularly those related to the Island's transportation systems, are managed and minimized.
Planning Objectives
I. Work towards obtaining the land designated on map entitled Community Conservation and Recreation Land Map - Version 2 (Map) as a significant park amenity that would both conserve provide for recreation opportunities. This land includes the waterfront including Pebbly Beach, Arbutus Point, and The Cape area, the coastal bluffs, the recognized sensitive ecosystems representative of the land’s five habitat types, and a contiguous greenway linking to the Crown lands to the east;
II. Provide for a mix of housing types and forms beyond conventional single family dwellings on acreage lots;
III. Secure 15% of the total residential floor space as affordable housing, considered as rental, price restricted, or non-market housing;
IV. Accommodate a seniors care facility;
V. Accommodate a small neighbourhood focal point that could serve the day-to-day commercial needs of the residents in the south west corner of the Island and might also contain some small scale community facilities;
VI. Create a compact development pattern that would promote energy efficiency and reduce the development footprint;
VII. Secure funding that would be assist in the delivery of civic facilities and affordable housing within Snug Cove;
VIII. Explore ways to deliver required infrastructure in a progressive and innovative manner that would minimize disturbance to the land, minimize impacts on the surrounding environment, utilize as little resources as possible;
IX. Secure land for future municipal use; and
X. Explore alternative methods of calculating residential density in order to encourage a mix housing types with the recognition of the existing maximum OCP dwelling unit yield.
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