My Personal 'To Do' List 2008-What Didn't Get Done

At the beginning of the last term, I laid out personal projects to pursue. This is lifted from 2008:

Some Personal Projects for the next term...

* Enable innovative technologies for low cost housing, including manufactured homes

* Enact alternatives to commercial open air slash fires including waste diversion and controlled burning

* Launch a pilot project for low speed Electric Vehicles

* Introduce a Forest Retention Bylaw (to regulate large scale clear-cutting)

Interesting that these ideas went nowhere, for the most part. I wanted to see a competition around pre-manufactured homes, showcased on a piece of property I thought might be suitable. Two problems- we needed first to redo the OCP, and in the end, no new language came forth that would have permitted it. Also, very little interest from the companies I contacted, because of Bowen's location.

Burning bylaw- still waiting, though staff insist it is part of the waste management strategy that will be coming forward. Meanwhile, huge slash piles got burned at Cape Roger Curtis, but because of a quirk in the law regarding transportation of wood waste off-property, Eddy is subject to onerous requirements to do the same at his 'pit', even though he has an expensive air blower system.

LSEV's- We did get one over here- more like a $12,000 golf cart than a real road vehicle. There is a very small market for these vehicles due to their limitations; the Volt, Nissan Leaf, and Mitsubishi's new i- MIEV have pretty much supplanted LSEV's, and they require nothing in terms of legislation to put on the road here.

Forest Retention- pretty much got rolled into the EAS Development Permit area. The second reading has been rescinded, awaiting revision before it comes back again.