OTTER POINT AND SHIRLEY
OFFICIAL COMMUNITY PLANS REVIEW

OCP Review Background Articles

The Otter Point and Shirley/Jordan River Official Community Plans review begins in the next few months. We wish to present topics relevant to the Official Community Plan reviews in this and upcoming articles.

These articles supplement the Vision Project document; we suggest you take the time to also review the Developing a Strategic Vision project records.

• This article examines a few examples of other communities' amenity loss and the recent costs and efforts to acquire and protect environmentally sensitive and significant green space, and then looks at ways to avoid incurring the false economy of amenity loss in our own communities.

• This article considers the best uses for our local forest land, the economic benefits we gain by retaining our forests, threats to our forests, and suggestions for ways to keep our forest and our community healthy.

• The challenges which arise when trying to engage the community in an OCP and zoning review

• Strata developments can be controversial so accurate information is important

• A review of the current Otter Point and Shirley tax notices