Juan de Fuca Land Use Committee:        Minutes of the meeting    January 21  2014
                                                              Lindon Collard statement at JDF LUC meeting.
                                     ZONING  LAWS MISUSED

 Municipalities and Districts have the power to regulate zoning and to control density and setbacks. The power to control most other aspects of the activity of business is not a Municipal power. 

When zoning requirements are used to control the nature of business or agricultural activity on property which is zoned so that the activity is permissible the Municipality is overstepping its powers and exercising unlawful control over property owners. 

I attended a meeting of the Juan de Fuca  Land Use Committee; at that meeting, January 21st 2014 I am quite sure that I said "Mr. Hicks, you are using your powers to change a setback to effectively prohibit the use of existing buildings located on agricultural zoned land which meet current setbacks", or words to that effect. Mr. Hicks stated that the increased setbacks would require a variance to use existing buildings which met current requirements. Mr. Hicks said, "We will throw it to the neighbors."  I replied that the neighbors always say no. 

I was making the case that zoning and setback powers were being used to effectively prohibit certain types business and agriculture for which land was zoned. There was no mention of my statement in the minutes of the meeting which I just noticed posted on a page associated with my name.   

I wrote a letter to the JDF Director about this zoning issue.