Mayne trustees send housing bylaws back for revisions

The committee directed staff to update the draft rules after asking that secondary-suite expansion in water-district areas be deferred to a future review.

The Mayne Firestarter · Governance · 2025-07-28 · updated 2026-10-09 · Mayne Island

The Mayne Island Local Trust Committee directed staff to revise the housing-project bylaws and return them for consideration of first reading. The minutes say the proposed expansion of secondary-suite permissions in water-district areas was removed from the current work and put on a future Land Use Bylaw Review Work Project.^[1]

Trustees supported requiring worker housing for significant commercial rezonings. They also discussed expanding flexible-housing regulations and allowing rezoning for non-market housing in more land-use designations.^[1]

At the community information meeting, residents raised concerns about water supply, including whether the proposed cistern capacity would last through dry periods. The minutes record a planner saying the 3,000-gallon requirement came from existing Mayne bylaws and that other islands were seeking an 18,000-litre capacity after studies of available cistern sizes and water needs.^[1]

The committee asked staff to update the draft Official Community Plan and Land Use Bylaw amendments as directed at the meeting, then return them for consideration of first reading.^[1]

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