499 Notice To Affected Property Owners And Tenants

499 (1) If a local government proposes to pass a resolution to issue a development variance permit, it must give notice in accordance with this section.

• (1.1) For certainty, the obligation to give notice under this section does not apply if a delegate, under section 498.1, exercises the power to issue the development variance permit.
• (2) The notice must state the following:

• (a) in general terms, the purpose of the proposed permit;
• (b) the land or lands that are the subject of the proposed permit;
• (c) the place where and the times and dates when copies of the proposed permit may be inspected.

• (3) The notice must be mailed or otherwise delivered at least 10 days before adoption of the resolution to issue the permit

• (a) to the owners, as shown on the assessment roll as at the date of application for the permit, and
• (b) to any tenants in occupation, as at the date of the mailing or delivery of the notice,

• of each parcel, any part of which is the subject of the permit or is within a distance specified by bylaw from that part of the land that is subject to the permit.
• (4) The obligation to give notice under this section is satisfied if the local government made a reasonable effort to mail or otherwise deliver the notice.

1985-79-8; 1987-14-34, 38; 1992-18-91, effective July 24, 1992 (B.C. Reg. 283/92); 1995-23-21, effective April 1, 1996 (B.C. Reg. 70/96); 1998-34-200, effective September 23, 1998 (B.C. Reg. 311/98); 2000-7-168, effective January 1, 2001 (B.C. Reg. 399/2000); 2003-52-391, effective January 1, 2004 (B.C. Reg. 465/2003); 2007-6-27, effective June 21, 2007 (B.C. Reg. 190/2007); RSBC 2015-1-499, effective January 1, 2016 (B.C. Reg. 257/2015); 2021-30-37.