CONTENTS
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Chapter 1: The Statutory Context for British Columbia's Local Governments
Chapter 2: Local Government Bodies
Chapter 3: Local Government Elections
Chapter 4: Local Government Services
Chapter 5: Local Government Regulatory Powers
Chapter 6: Local Government Corporate Powers
Chapter 7: Local Governance
Chapter 8: Local Government Finance
Chapter 9: Planning and Land Use Management
Chapter 10: Attacking Local Government Decisions
Community Charter
Community Charter Transitional Provisions, Part 1
Case Table
Statute Table
Index
This guidebook includes finding tools that provide speedy access to the chapters and the legislation
- ten topical chapters provide frequent cross-reference to the Community Charter and the Local Government Act
- statute table, with section-by-section access from the table to the chapters
- comprehensive subject index
- over 300 pages in a convenient 6" by 9" softbound format
- online access to electronic version with hyperlinks to primary law
Author
William A. Buholzer — Young, Anderson, Vancouver
About the author
William A. Buholzer is a partner at the Vancouver firm of Young, Anderson, where his practice focuses on land use and planning law, building regulation, and other local government issues. He worked for several years as a city planner in Alberta and BC. Mr. Buholzer is a graduate of the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning and the Faculty of Law, UBC, and was called to the BC bar in 1991. He is the author of British Columbia Planning Law and Practice (Butterworths), and the author of the “Planning and Zoning” title in Halsbury’s Laws of Canada (2008). Mr. Buholzer is a past chair of the Municipal Law section of the CBA, BC Branch, an associate member of Continuing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and adjunct professor at the UBC School of Community and Regional Planning. In 2010, Mr. Buholzer was elected to the College of Fellows of the Canadian Institute of Planners in recognition of his contribution to the planning profession.