An open workshop on the generic tools and methods available to planners, owners, politicians and the public, in the acquisition and creation of green space and parks.
Date: September 23rd, 2007
Time: 7 p.m.
Place: The Bowen Island Art Gallery, Artisan Square
Guest Speaker: Ian Atherton
Supervisor, Land Acquisitions, BC Parks, Ministry of Environment.
Ian has been a key player in the acquisition, via cash, gift and land exchange, of recreational and conservation property throughout British Columbia for the past 30 years. He has worked in partnership with federal and regional governments as well as non-government organizations.
Sample Highlight Acquisitions include:
• Pacific Rim National Park Reserve
• Commonwealth Nature Legacy
• Juan de Fuca Trail
• Pacific Marine Heritage Legacy
• Burgoyne Bay
• Mt Erskine and Cusheon Cove (Salt Spring Island)
• Fintry Estates (Okanagan)
• Codd Island and Blaney Bog (Lower Mainland)
Ian has worked in partnership with the Nature Trust, Nature Conservancy of Canada, Ducks Unlimited and The Land Conservancy of BC.
Moderator: Mel Turner
For 28 years Mel was BC Parks’ Planning and Conservation Manager for the Lower Mainland and Vancouver Island. Mel has recently come on board as Park Consultant to the Bowen Island
Municipality.
Please join with us to discover how parks get created. Everyone welcome.
Archived materials
Posts
- 14-Mar: A conservation area at Cape Roger Curtis!
- Fall 2009 update
- Legal Opinion on CRC Subdivision Application
- Parks Canada Initiative – Fall/Winter 2009
- Disappointment: The Owner’s New Proposal for Cape Roger Curtis
- Cape Trust Society praised for quality of work
- Fifty-eight-lot subdivision application for the Cape shouldn’t be on the table
- Cape Roger Curtis Trust Society Launches Wild Coast Plan 2
- CRC Plan Beyond Comprehensive
- Bowen agleam in red and green
Documents
- Why environmental inventories are insufficient for conservation planning: Comments on the 2008 PGL report on CRC
- Four-legged friend or foe? Dog walking displaces native birds from natural areas
- Mitigating and adapting to Climate Change through conservation of nature
- CRC writer ignored biological issues
- Cape Roger Curtis Biophysical Summary
- Overview Environmental Inventory
- Success Stories Show Park at Cape Roger Curtis Not Impossible
- Council Resolution Defining the Public Interest in Cape Roger Curtis
- Follow up from Dr. Karel Klinka’s Assessment of the Cape Roger Curtis Property
- Ecological Assessment and Considerations in Developing the Cape Roger Curtis Property
Letters
- CRC Trust Society makes clear its position
- Trust Society comments on Neighbourhood Plan of September 2008
- Trust Society Comments on Ekistics’ Preliminary Neighbourhood Plan and Implementation Options
- CRC Transportation Study Points to the Need for an OCP Review
- It’s all in the numbers-–hundreds of houses are just too many
- Council encouraged to instate DCCs
- Developers should be held to task
- Walk Your Talk Inside and Outside
- CRC developers upped ante unacceptable
- Transparent or veiled?