Dylan Thiessen

Background

About Dylan Thiessen

As a long range planner for the Comox Valley Regional District, I oversee several projects ranging from bylaw drafting and amendments to the implementation of strategies and initiatives, including managing small-scale capital projects. Some of these include the implementation of the Coastal Flood Adaptation Strategy, Residential Emissions Reduction Action Plan, and the Active Transportation Network Plan (including project managing the construction of some AT projects), and updates to the Zoning Bylaw, Official Community Plan, Floodplain Management Bylaw, Regional Growth Strategy, and other land use bylaws. I hold a Master of Community Planning degree from Vancouver Island University (2020) and a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Calgary (2018). My MCP thesis looked at the relationship between social infrastructure and quality of life with a specific focus on public libraries as providers of social infrastructure. My MA thesis assessed the utility of reconciliation as a political tool within an already-established liberal democratic state, highlighting tensions between the two using reconciliation in Canada as a case study and offering a reconceptualization of reconciliation informed by the political theory of Hannah Arendt.