House:
- Host or rent space for public meetings/gatherings
- Host or rent space for nonprofit social services agencies offering community services (food depot and programs, employment services etc.)
- Emergency reception area and emergency accommodation- Day care/senior drop-in- Office space for community nonprofits ( Gabriola Recreation Society, GESS)- Educational courses/programs
- Craft fairs/flea markets
- Exhibition – art, museum disiplays
- Weddings
- Church services
- Private parties
- Potential for single family residential use maintained (from AG zoning) either in main house or in separate location
Workshop
- Maintenance and repair shop for operating and managing the lands and buildings
- Storage of owner tools and equipment
- Rental storage for community nonprofit groups
- Educational courses and workshops
- Social enterprise initiatives by owner/society
- Long-term rentals
- Pottery/art workshop addition
Cheese Plant
- Community and commercial kitchen
- Educational classes and workshops
- Community kitchen projects & concession
- Emergency response food relief
- Large-scale food storage
- Food processing (includes cheese-making, creating Gabriola Brand
Goat Barn
- Performances
- Rehearsal space
- Movies
- Large venue public meetings
- Church services/weddings
- Exhibition space
- Educational classes/workshops/forums
- Storage space (stage sets etc.)
- Rentals for all of the above
New infill (between kitchen workshop and goat barn)
- Bathrooms (to Code for Assembly etc. occupancies)
- Storage
- mall-scale conservancy for horticulture, community dining,meeting space, classes
Land adjacent to Goat Barn & Cheese Plant
- Exhibition space
- Outdoor gatherings
- Concerts (with bandshell)/dances/performances/movies
- Teaching
- Craft/demonstration fair
- Picnics/play area
- Skateboard park
- Farmgate sales
Land around Main House
- Public and private gatherings
- Rentals for above
- overnight camping/accommodation for participants in farm/workshop events
Pathways
- Public wheelchair-accessible footpath linking Redwood Road and FolkLife Village
- Redwood Loop boardwalk at Goodhue Creek
Constructed Wetland
- Treatment of effluent from Commons and adjacent properties (in accordance with BCOSSA guidelines and relevant codes.)
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