Squamish-Lillooet Regional District Electoral Area D Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1135-2013 SQUAMISH-LILLOOET REGIONAL DISTRICT BYLAW NO. 1135-2013 A bylaw of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District to adopt an Official Community Plan for Electoral Area D. WHEREAS the Board of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District wishes to adopt a new Electoral Area D Official Community Plan; NOW THEREFORE, the Regional Board of the Squamish-Lillooet Regional District, in open meeting assembled, enacts as follows: 1. This bylaw may be cited for all purposes as ‘Electoral Area D Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1135-2013.’ 2. Schedule A, being the text of the Electoral Area D Official Community Plan, is attached to and forms part of this bylaw. 3. Schedule B, being the Plan Maps of the Electoral Area D Official Community Plan, is attached to and forms part of this bylaw. 4. Schedule C, being the text of the Howe Sound East Sub-area Plan, is attached to and forms part of this bylaw. 5. The Electoral Area D Official Community Plan (OCP) Bylaw No. 495, 1994 is repealed. READ A FIRST TIME this 25th day of February , 2013. READ A SECOND TIME this 25th day of February , 2013. FIRST AND SECOND READINGS RESCINDED this 22nd day of July, , 2013. READ A FIRST TIME AS AMENDED this 22nd day of July , 2013. READ A SECOND TIME AS AMENDED this 22nd day of July , 2013. PUBLIC HEARING held on the 3rd day of October , 2013. READ A THIRD TIME as amended this 28th day of October , 2013. ADOPTED this 28th day of October , 2013. Chair, Patricia Heintzman Secretary, Peter DeJong Bylaw 1135 - Consolidated for Convenience Only July 2019 SLRD Electoral Area D Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1135-2013 SCHEDULE A Table of Contents 1. INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................................... 1 1.1 DEFINITIONS .................................................................................................................................. 1 1.2 PURPOSE and REQUIRED CONTENT .............................................................................................. 3 1.3 SCOPE / PLAN AREA....................................................................................................................... 3 1.4 REVIEW AND AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN .................................................................................... 4 1.5 REGIONAL GROWTH STRATEGY .................................................................................................... 4 2. COMMUNITY OVERVIEW....................................................................................................................... 6 2.1 GEOGRAPHY .................................................................................................................................. 6 2.2 HISTORY and CULTURAL HERITAGE ............................................................................................... 6 2.3 SETTLEMENT PATTERNS ................................................................................................................ 7 2.4 POPULATION AND HOUSING .............................................................................................................. 8 3. SUSTAINABILITY AND RESILIENCE........................................................................................................ 11 3.1 ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY .......................................................................................................... 11 3.2 CLIMATE CHANGE AND GREENHOUSE GAS REDUCTION ............................................................ 12 3.3 NATURAL HAZARDS ..................................................................................................................... 14 3.4 TRANSPORTATION ....................................................................................................................... 16 3.5 SERVICES AND INFRASTRUCTURE (COMMUNITY SERVICES) ....................................................... 18 4. SUSTAINABILITY IN LAND USE ................................................................................................................... 22 4.1 INDUSTRIAL ................................................................................................................................. 23 4.1.1 Resource Industrial Activity ......................................................................................................... 23 4.1.2 Industrial Development ............................................................................................................... 23 4.2 COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT .................................................................................................... 24 4.3 AFFORDABLE HOUSING ............................................................................................................... 25 5. LAND USE DESIGNATIONS ................................................................................................................... 26 5.1 Residential Designation ............................................................................................................... 26 5.2 Rural Residential Designation...................................................................................................... 27 5.3 Special Planning Area .................................................................................................................. 28 5.4 Resource Management Designation ........................................................................................... 28 5.5 Agriculture Designation ............................................................................................................... 31 5.6 Commercial – Brew Creek Retreat Designation .......................................................................... 34 5.7 Commercial – Callaghan Backcountry Designation ..................................................................... 34 5.8 Commercial – Whistler Olympic Park Designation ...................................................................... 35 5.9 Commercial – Gondola Backcountry Designation ....................................................................... 35 5.10 Industrial Designation ................................................................................................................. 36 5.11 Institutional and Community Designation ................................................................................... 36 5.12 Community Watershed Protection Designation.......................................................................... 36 5.13 Park Designation ......................................................................................................................... 37 i Bylaw 1135 - Consolidated for Convenience Only July 2019 5.14 Special Study Area Designation ................................................................................................... 38 5.15 Marine Foreshore Designation .................................................................................................... 38 5.16 Planned Community Designation ................................................................................................ 39 6. IMPLEMENTATION .............................................................................................................................. 41 6.1 Sub-Area Planning ....................................................................................................................... 41 6.2 Implementing Zoning Bylaws ...................................................................................................... 41 6.3 Development Approval Information Area ................................................................................... 41 7. DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AREAS ........................................................................................................... 43 7.1 RIPARIAN PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AREA ............................................................... 44 7.2 WILDFIRE PROTECTION DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AREA ............................................................... 48 7.3 COMPREHENSIVE DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AREA ........................................................................ 50 7.4 MEDICAL MARIHUANA PRODUCTION FACILITY DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AREA .......................... 59 LIST OF SCHEDULES Schedule B to Bylaw 1135-2013 – Electoral Area D OCP Maps Map 1 – Land Use Designations Map 2 – Natural Hazards Map 3 – Transportation, Trails, Service Areas Map 4 – Aggregate Resources Map 5 – Wildlife Habitat, Wetlands, and Old Growth Management Areas Map 6 – Development Permit Areas Schedule C to Bylaw 1135-2013 – Howe Sound East Sub-area Plan NOTE: The following additional DP Areas are designated within the Howe Sound East Sub-area Plan: • Porteau Cove Intensive Residential, Multi-family Residential, and Commercial • Porteau Cove Environmental Protection • Porteau Cove Natural Hazards Schedule D to Bylaw 1135-2013 – Porteau Cove Development Permit Design Guidelines ii Bylaw 1135 - Consolidated for Convenience Only July 2019 BYLAW NO. SUMMARY OF BYLAW AMENDMENTS DATE OF ADOPTION Creating a Medical Marihuana Production Facility 1312 – 2014 Development Permit Area October 27, 2014 Housekeeping amendments to Development Permit Areas 1433 - 2016 June 22, 2016 Removal of Mixed Residential land use at Britannia Beach and 1524-2017 Rezoning Upper Squamish Valley, Rustad Road properties, February 28, 2018 from RR3 zone to RR2 zone OCP Schedule C Map 1A “Howe Sound East