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Land Swaps in the CRD - Pros and Cons


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#1 Bingo

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Posted 18 December 2016 - 04:24 PM

Saanich planners are recommending the municipality’s councillors reject an amendment to the regional growth strategy that is necessary for a land swap between Langford, Metchosin and the Beecher Bay First Nation to go through.

“A Saanich elected official should have no say in what happens 20 kilometres away,” Langford Mayor Stew Young said.

“This thing is so bloody ridiculous. … It’s just more evidence that the regional governance system and growth strategy do not work.”

The land swap would involve adjusting the boundary between Langford and Metchosin.

Beecher Bay would transfer to Metchosin three parcels of Crown land, totalling 250 acres, that are being offered to the band as part of a treaty package.

The parcels would be protected as green space.

In return, Beecher Bay would receive partial ownership in a proposed business park on land currently straddling the Langford and Metchosin border.

The boundary adjustment would place 367 acres of Metchosin lands within Langford, including all the land for the business park.

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