If Bowen Island was a business we would be having some pretty serious meetings right now. The business climate is changing and we’re stuck with too much inventory. In last week’s real estate paper there were over 70 houses listed for sale.
Also tagged Housing, Island LifeSeparating issues from distractions is sometimes necessary, particularly when dealing with Bowen politics. This week I’m trying to sort out a few of them.
Also tagged Island Life, OCP, Surplus Lands, waterLast Monday night Municipal Council considered a proposal, prepared by staff, which outlined how we could provide the $712,000 that our municipality will have to invest in the Snug Cove sewer upgrade. Of course council didn’t approve it. They deferred their decision until after more community consultation. But this time the good old deferral trick [...]
Also tagged Municipal Politics, Surplus LandsWhat Does it Mean to be “Green” on Bowen?
In the spring of 2008 fourteen islanders, selected by Council, sat around tables in Municipal Hall and began to answer this question. They came from a variety of backgrounds, with expertise in climate change solutions, social justice, green buildings, affordability, waste reduction and ecosystem protection – approaches [...]
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 Housing, Municipal Politics, OCPIn a world where more and more places are looking just like each other it’s nice to come home to Bowen and notice how distinctive our community looks. Looking from side to side as the ferry docks,
Also tagged Island Life, Municipal HallLast week the Cape Roger Curtis (CRC) developers filed a subdivision application with the municipality. I haven’t seen it yet but I am very curious. As some of you may already know CRC is a 640-acre parcel of land on the southwest tip of Bowen. The developers who own it recently went to some lengths [...]
Also tagged Cape Roger Curtis, Municipal Politics“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 HousingThe 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, Housing, Municipal Politics, OCPGet 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 [...]
Also tagged Housing, SCMP