Islands Trust trustees support BEN bylaw citing enforcement and housing stock benefits

governance · 2019-06-06 · Islands Trust meeting

Trustees Busheikin and Critchley supported the BEN bylaw, emphasizing its utility in bylaw enforcement, reducing litigation costs, and addressing illegal housing and short-term rentals to increase housing stock. They acknowledged concerns but stressed the bylaw's role in sustainable development.

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• “Trustee Critchley did not think that the BEN bylaw was going to upset the community... Trustee Busheikin echoed the idea that the BEN bylaw would be a useful tool... Enforcement of the Short Term Rental policy has come to concentrate enforcement on where there is no resident owner.” — The Islands Grapevine – June 20th, 2019 (June 20th, 2019)

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