The research behind the case.

• September 10, 2026

  How Denman proposed a 64-hectare subdivision minimum: the recovered record

  Denman’s Housing Review was listed in January 2021 to increase housing options. The bylaws — read a third time on 15 September 2026 and not yet approved by the Executive Committee or the Minister — set a 64-hectare minimum lot in every zone, our general area screen identifies two qualifying parcels among 894 mapped parcels, excluding special subdivision routes and untested approvals. We read 100 Islands Trust documents and 39 meeting recordings to find out when that happened, who proposed it, and how the figure was chosen. The full chronology is on denmantown.org.

• September 2, 2026

  The Denman Housing Review, explained from the bylaw text: house size, suites, “Land-Share” zones, tiny homes, cisterns and the end of the density bank

  Bylaws 260 and 264 rewrite what you can build on Denman Island. This is what the proposed text actually says, clause by clause, with page references to the 24 August 2026 agenda package: a 300 m² cap on a house, suites and second dwellings by lot size, the renamed co-housing zone, RVs and yurts as homes, a ban on whole-home short-term rentals, cistern rules, and the deletion of density banking. Third reading carried 15 September 2026; approval by the Executive Committee, and the Minister for the OCP amendment, is pending — nothing below is in force. Updated 28 September 2026.

• September 2, 2026

  “Let’s let the ministry say, oh, they didn’t”: the Denman trust committee removes the housing-needs figures from its plan, on the record

  At second reading of Denman Island’s new housing bylaws on 24 August 2026, the trustees and their planner agreed to delete the two sentences of the official community plan that reported the province’s housing-needs figures for the island — 109 units in five years, 359 in twenty — after the planner said twice that a legislative requirement to reference the report exists. The stated reason: not to suggest the island’s population will grow. The stated method: delete it and see what the ministry says. Every line below plays from the Trust’s own recording.

• August 23, 2026

  Share the argument, not just the link

  Every substantial campaign argument and every post can now become a sourced, page-specific PNG—built from live copy, designed for a feed, and still useful in email, messages, documents, and print.

• August 23, 2026

  We read the court cases. Most of them go against us.

  Seventeen counted decisions on the Islands Trust. It has won fourteen, lost one and split two, and both defeats at trial were reversed on appeal. It can lawfully zone the sea. None of these decisions addresses where its outer boundary runs. The post has been updated twice since publication and its original count of ten is preserved inside it.

These articles are also published on abolishislandstrust.org, a separate campaign by the same author. Both sites are disclosed on our transparency page.