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Mountain, Sunset, Timbertop residents get first look at new plan How do you get out, if the worst is happening? Do you have a plan? Mary Brown does. Since taking on the position of Emergency Planning Coordinator (EPC) in the summer of 2025, Brown has sought and secured funding for an Evacuation Planning expert, who has generated a new plan to help Lions Bay residents address any number of potential emergencies from wildfires to earthquakes. And this week, if you are a residen

How much do you know about LBSAR? Photo courtesy LBSAR. Sunny skies and warm temperatures have local hikers shaking the dust off their hiking boots, and poring over local trail maps. But for Lions Bay Search and Rescue (LBSAR), the increasing number of hikers in the wilderness means the start of rescue season. Of course, with winter hiking and the ever-increasing number of adventurers taking advantage of the great outdoors, it's never really NOT rescue season for LBSAR. They

Local residents return to find unexpected new tenants When Lions Bay residents Trevor Hoffmann and Bobo Zhao recently returned from a work trip, they were met by a unexpected group of gate crashers. A window that had been left cracked open to offer a little air circulation while they were away proved to be an invitation to an uninvited visitor with homemaking plans of her own. All photos by Trevor Hoffmann. A nest, complete with four perfectly positioned eggs, had been neatly

Some residents worried about speed, focus of changes A public hearing scheduled to address changes to the zoning bylaw that addresses lot size is being met with concern from a number of local residents. As noted by staff in the May 22 Village Update, the proposed amendments to the bylaw in question, Zoning and Development Bylaw No.520, 2017, would revise three sections of the zone governing all single-family properties in the Village in order to establish a minimum parcel are