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	<title>Bowen Bulletin &#187; OCP</title>
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		<title>OCP Draft Is Out</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2010/07/07/ocp-draft-is-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:20:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<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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		<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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		<title>Ideas for the OCP Update</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/11/04/ideas-for-the-ocp-update/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/11/04/ideas-for-the-ocp-update/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:14:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The committee that&#8217;s working on updating our Official Community Plan (OCP) asked all of the various groups on the island to submit ideas for a forum that they held a couple of weeks ago. More than twenty submissions have been posted on the bowenocpupdate website. Taken as a whole, they provide an excellent insight into [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/08/27/moving-forward/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/08/27/moving-forward/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 17:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCP Update Idea</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/08/12/ocp-update-idea/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/08/12/ocp-update-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 16:54:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CO2 Emissions]]></category>
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Our Official Community Plan (OCP) update process is officially off and running. Looking over the existing plan, I realize that the world has changed a lot in the last 15 years but I wonder how many of the old assumptions that framed so much of the very earliest community plans will be accepted again without [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Economic Growth</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/05/27/economic-growth/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/05/27/economic-growth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 22:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most communities fall into one of two camps. Either &#8211; we’re being overrun and need to enact policies that will curb undesirable development or – this town is dying, we need to attract some business. Bowen doesn’t really fit into either group. We’re considered in the wider world to be a suburb of metro Vancouver. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OCP &#8211; Let The Debate Begin</title>
		<link>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/05/14/ocp-let-the-debate-begin/</link>
		<comments>http://bowenbulletin.artisanoffice.com/2009/05/14/ocp-let-the-debate-begin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 18:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Murray Skeels</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Official Community Plan (OCP) update process is about to start. So I’ve been chatting with people who were involved in the process the last time around in 1992. Apparently things started off very well. Anybody interested in any aspect of community planning was invited to sit on a subcommittee that would make recommendations to [...]]]></description>
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