VANCOUVER, British Columbia (CN) — The British Columbia Supreme Court judge must decide if a controversial shoreline erosion mitigation project on British Columbia’s Salt Spring Island was properly denied by the island’s municipal government and whether it overreached its constitutional authority.
In arguments that wrapped up Friday, the island’s local trust — a municipality-like entity that governs the island with a committee akin to a city council — noted that the decision to deny the project was more nuanced than the project’s proponents have suggested.
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