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	<title>Bowen Bulletin &#187; OCP</title>
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		<title>Only On Bowen</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/11/10/only-on-bowen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to the All Candidates meeting at the school last weekend. Most of it was as dull as dishwater but Nerys Poole was a star. I kid you not. When it came to the mayors debate Nerys squared off one on one against Jack. While Jack demonstrated an astounding lack of knowledge of local [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Election Season</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/07/28/election-season/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/07/28/election-season/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 23:51:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we approach another Municipal election season it may be timely to look back at the last three-year term and make some predictions about what the electorate will be looking for in our next mayor and council.
The last term started in December of 2008 with a bang. A bylaw that proposed to amend our Official [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hearing The Public</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/07/15/hearing-the-public/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/07/15/hearing-the-public/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/?p=422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Soon after I moved to the island I received brochures in the mail from the Improvement Association and the Eco Alliance. I thought that both groups had some good ideas and decided to join both of them. Before long it became apparent that it was like joining both the American Republican Party and the Communist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Slippery Slope</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/06/30/slippery-slope/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2011/06/30/slippery-slope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jun 2011 23:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Cape Roger Curtis]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/?p=419</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our Municipal Council is about to pass three new environmental bylaws. Two of them seem to me to make sense but the third is a disaster.
The first proposed bylaw seeks to control disturbance of steep slopes. Remember when that yard in North Vancouver slipped down the hill and killed a woman in her home below? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Waiting to Exhale</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/12/10/waiting-to-exhale/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/12/10/waiting-to-exhale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 17:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/?p=386</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Waiting to exhale.” That’s how we’re ending this year. I know that many of you would argue that pretty much describes how we feel at the end of every year but this is different. There are so many things so close to actually happening that we would really have to outdo ourselves for nothing to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCP Draft Is Out</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/07/07/ocp-draft-is-out/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/07/07/ocp-draft-is-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/?p=347</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our OCP Update Committee has released a draft of our new Official Community Plan and in most respects I think that it captures our collective aspirations quite well. The committee working on the Plan spent a lot of time consulting with community groups about what should be included in the update and they included a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Official Community Plan Ideas</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/06/03/official-community-plan-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/06/03/official-community-plan-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week’s column is a summary of a submission I made to the OCP Update Steering Committee 
This letter hopes to challenge some of the basic assumptions surrounding OCP density, density trading and future zoning.
The first assumption is that our OCP is our vision, as a community, of where we wish to go. The development [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Issues and Distractions</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/04/22/issues-and-distractions/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/04/22/issues-and-distractions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Separating issues from distractions is sometimes necessary, particularly when dealing with Bowen politics. This week I’m trying to sort out a few of them.
The C.N.I.B. lodge is for sale for $4,200,000. For those of you who have never turned right when coming off the ferry, the lodge is basically a great rustic dining hall with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCP Update &#8211; It&#8217;s not as boring as you think</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/03/12/ocp-update-its-not-as-boring-as-you-think/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/03/12/ocp-update-its-not-as-boring-as-you-think/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:06:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The committee steering the Official community Plan (OCP) update has put out a number of background papers.
Paper #1 asks why we’re doing an update instead of a full review. It’s kind of funny. It notes that a full review could take fourteen to eighteen months (the update started last June and should be completed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yearend Reflections</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/12/17/317/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/12/17/317/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Eco Alliance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/?p=317</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[
A Brief History of Bowen Island &#8211; In the spirit of brevity I will start in the 1970’s. At that time the local Highways Department foreman approved subdivisions and you could purchase your Gulf Island summer get-away lot at a booth at the PNE. Then the provincial NDP party replaced the Social Credit party and [...]]]></description>
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