Salt Spring Island, British Columbia

Salt Spring Island is the largest of BC's Gulf Islands and is not a municipality. It is an unincorporated electoral area of the Capital Regional District (CRD), which runs most local services from its Salt Spring Island office: parks and recreation, transit, building inspection, bylaw enforcement, dog licences, the emergency program, and several small water and sewer systems. The Islands Trust's Salt Spring Island Local Trust Committee handles land use planning, zoning and development permits. The Salt Spring Island Fire Protection District runs fire rescue, and the North Salt Spring Waterworks District supplies water to Ganges and much of the north island. Roads (maintained under contract by Emcon Services), policing and property tax billing are provincial.