As we move along with the updating of our Official Community Plan (OCP) it is probably worthwhile to look back on how well the plan has served us to date and what we might to do to make it more usable in the future. The first thing that we have to acknowledge is that there [...]
Also tagged Municipal Politics, OCP, Snug Cove“Success has many ingredients, but the greatest of these is confidence.” If ever there has ever been a group that embodied that philosophy it is the Bowen Community Housing Association. They have been working away very deliberately on a plan for putting families into affordable homes. Since their inception in 2005 they have developed strategies, [...]
Also tagged Snug Cove“Cates Hill, I’d like to introduce you to the west side of Bowen Island. West Side, I’d like to introduce Cates Hill.” During the recent road repairs these two groups got more of each other than they bargained for. The residents of Cates Hill got an inkling of what it’s like to live on Adams [...]
Also tagged Abbeyfield, Cape Roger Curtis, Municipal PoliticsI have an update for you on what’s happening with our community lands (formerly known as the Surplus Lands.) Council is moving forward with plans to sell off the piece of property on the east side of Miller Road just beyond the RCMP buildings. It’s just over 3 acres and actually wraps around behind the [...]
Also tagged Municipal PoliticsThe more things change, the more they stay the same. I remember telling an old-timer 25 years ago that Bowen was about to explode. We had been discovered and, no matter how much effort went into slowing down progress a major population boom was just around the corner. He told me people had been telling [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis, Municipal Politics, OCP, Snug CoveCape Update
The Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) development people have unveiled their much anticipated proposal for how many houses they would like to build on their 630 acre parcel on the south-west corner of Bowen Island. In round figures they think that about 1,000 would work well. Considering their current zoning allows for no more than [...]
Get smart and save $20,000. Bowen Island has signed up to compete in the BC Hydro Power Smart Community Challenge. To win we have to sign up the highest percentage of residential customers. If we win we get $20,000 towards the upgrading of a municipal building. This is good because we have undertaken to retrofit [...]
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