I know that I keep going on about the Cape Roger Curtis development proposal but this thing is getting bizarre. Council has said repeatedly that they want public feedback. So the citizens of Bowen Island rose up in an unprecedented unified voice that saw over 500 of us put our names to an ad in [...]
Also taggedSo I went to a council meeting where they were going to talk about the Cape Roger Curtis proposal. I had written one of the reports that were being discussed so several people asked me to get up and speak during the time set aside for public comments. Remind me never to do that again; [...]
Also taggedBowen Island isn’t a municipality; Bowen is an Island Municipality. We’re actually unique in this part of world. Municipalities are typically urbanized areas surrounded by unincorporated rural lands and sometimes crown land. There are usually provincially maintained roads that run to and often through the municipality.
Our Island Municipality is quite different. We’re surrounded by water; [...]
It is said that history is simply a set of lies that we all agree to. The same can be said about available water supplies on our island. Several different groups with their own agendas find it useful to agree that water is scarce. The people who want to limit property development claim potential water [...]
Also taggedThere are two things happening this month that you might care about. The first is the great plastic field debate on Saturday the 17th. The municipality had almost agreed to partially fund a synthetic turf field at the school but, just before they gave final approval last summer, a number of people spoke out against [...]
Also tagged Municipal Politics, TurfOur new council has hit the ground running. At their first meeting Nerys Poole presented a notice of motion that would instruct staff to inform the Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) Development people that their Neighbourhood Plan will not be incorporated into our Official Community Plan. (It is, of course, much longer winded than that but [...]
Also tagged Municipal PoliticsBoy, do you guys ever take your politics seriously. In a country where most municipalities expect about 30% of the eligible voters to cast ballots in local elections we see 68% of our voters show up. 1457 of us individually marked down our choices to create the council that is going to lead us through [...]
Also tagged Municipal PoliticsI get a kick out of handicapping upcoming elections so I spend a lot of time asking people who they’re going to vote for. The most common response that I’ve been getting is that the first two or three candidates worthy of a vote are pretty easy but it gets difficult to select six. What [...]
Also tagged Municipal PoliticsThe most important issue in our upcoming municipal election may not be what we stand to gain from the many candidates’ promises, but rather what we have to lose.
Bowen Island is an exceptional place to live. Almost everyone agrees that we have a close, caring community set in a spectacular natural environment, still rural in [...]
Welcome to the Ball Park. This isn’t a place for baseball. This is where people negotiate about numbers. This is where things are either in the ballpark or they’re not. This is a place where you either play ball or you don’t. This is where the citizens of Bowen Island find themselves playing a very [...]
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