Visitor and Camping Management - Camping Bylaw

COMPLETED - the suite of bylaws was adopted May 25, 2021.

As part of a Visitor and Camping Management plan for 2021, the District has introduced a number of bylaw changes. The suite of bylaws:

• Do not permit camping in District parks;
• Do permit a homeless person to erect a temporary overnight shelter in specific places at set times in accordance with a recent B.C. Supreme Court ruling;
• Help us manage the large influx of tourism traffic each summer;
• Do not criminalize anyone;
• Provide more enforcement tools;
• Are supported with additional facilities like portable toilets, garbage cans, and additional bylaw officers on evenings and weekends.

Fact sheet and FAQ

View our FACT SHEET*

View our FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS* 

*amended following May 18 Camping Bylaw amendments

Proposed bylaws

The following bylaws received first three readings by Council at the May 4, 2021 Special Business Meeting: 

Traffic Bylaw:

• Traffic Bylaw Consolidated Outlining Changes
• Traffic Bylaw Amendment 2830

 Park Use Bylaw:

• Park Use Consolidated Outlining Changes
• Park Use Bylaw Amendment 2828

 Camping Bylaw:

The Camping bylaw was amended at the May 18 Special Business Meeting:

• Camping Bylaw 2829
• Schedule A (map denoted "Red Areas" which identify where neither camping nor homeless sheltering can take place).