Land development and watershed protection can be compatible
Channel: waterbucket
Date: 2020-04-23

"The move to where we are today started with the Stormwater Planning Guidebook in 2002. The Guidebook advanced the premise that land development and watershed protection can be compatible. In 2002, that was a new way of thinking," stated John Finnie, Chair, CAVI-Convening for Action on Vancouver Island, at the 2010 State of Vancouver Island Economic Summit.

The Vancouver Island Summit is an annual event organized and hosted by the Vancouver Island Economic Alliance (VIEA). The 2010 Summit included a breakout session on water-centric development that was a collaborative effort of two groups: the CAVI-Convening for Action on Vancouver Island team: and the Leadership Vancouver Island society. The session was an outcome of the Dialogue in Nanaimo, held in June 2010.

VIEA supported the Dialogue in Nanaimo because VIEA viewed the event as the springboard to a session on water sustainability at the Summit.

The objective of the Summit breakout session was to facilitate dialogue on the question “What do we want Vancouver Island to look like in 50 years?”

Major breakthroughs happen when decision-makers in government work with grass-roots visionaries in the community to create desired outcomes. When ‘convening for action’, we create a picture of the future that we want.

This interactive session on land development and water sustainability informed and educated Summit participants about a new form of governance that is taking root in the local government setting on Vancouver Island. It is quiet, silent and very effective. It starts with a vision: settlement change in balance with ecology. It is about turning the whole game around to a new way of doing business. The future desired by all will be created through alignment of federal, provincial, regional and local policies and actions.

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