Why is there a need for a soil removal bylaw? Mostly it is for adjacent most land owners they are the most impacted. However problems with road usage, dust, noise in areas that have not had that use can affect many neighborhoods. In the past in some areas a lot would be essentially mined for the material and left totally destitute with the local roads destroyed. In other cases people have stored material that can have environmental or just look ugly. There is little anyone can do about these situations right now. The absence of bylaw has created problems such as; 925 truckloads of fill off of a lot created problems (in the neighbourhood). The lot sits open a decade later and under the Mines Act there is nothing that can be done with the property. Under the mines act, there is no control we over such things as; blasting, mining quarry and soil removal on ALR lands. The CSRD cannot supersede Mining or ALR regulations, they however can regulate; processing, delivery of material to and from the site. A soil removal bylaw can deal with such issues as; movement of contaminated soils, permit exemptions for small scale situations, dealing with slope stabilization, erosion issues, public consultation, consideration of surrounding land use/ resident quality of life, storm water management, hours of operation, noise levels and proper accesses (fencing, gates).
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