Bylaws Pending Approval

What is happening?

Council gave first reading to Business Registry Bylaw Amendment 2025-24 – Visitor Accommodation.

The updates to the bylaw include:

1. Aligning Visitor Accommodation business licencing requirements with Tourist Home business licencing requirements, meaning each titled Visitor Accommodation unit will require a business licence.
2. Updates to the definition of short-term licences timelines to align with Schedule A.
3. Removal of “and on or before September 30” in clause 26, to simplify language that aligns with the 2024 bylaw updates.

Read the Bylaw

Read Bylaw 2025-24 here.

Public Hearing

A public hearing is scheduled for September 2, 2025.

What is happening?

Council gave first reading to Revised Land Use Bylaw (LUB) Amendment 2025-21 – Tourist Home Enforcement.

Enforcement against unpermitted Tourist Homes often relies on evidence of advertisement. Following recommendations from legal counsel, administration is proposing amendments to the LUB to make it an offense to advertise a non-permitted Tourist Home.

Read the Bylaw

Read Bylaw 2025-21 here. 

Public Hearing

A public hearing was held on July 8, 2025. Council postponed second and third readings until August 19, 2025 to consider the feedback from the public hearing.