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#281 GaryOak

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Posted 20 December 2022 - 10:43 AM

I wouldn't be surprised if 40-60% of people in North Saanich are living in illegal suites.
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#282 Mike K.

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Posted 21 December 2022 - 07:37 AM

It’s not quite that high.

Statscan says 12% of lived in residential units are suites, or 590-units. Let’s say at the high end it’s 2 people per suite (likely lower), which works out to 1,180 people out of 12,235, or just under 10%. Even if it’s 3 people per suite, that’s still less than 15%.

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#283 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 21 December 2022 - 07:55 AM

It’s not quite that high.

Statscan says 12% of lived in residential units are suites, or 590-units. Let’s say at the high end it’s 2 people per suite (likely lower), which works out to 1,180 people out of 12,235, or just under 10%. Even if it’s 3 people per suite, that’s still less than 15%.

 

StatsCan can't find you if you do not admit on the census you harbour an illegal suite.



#284 Mike K.

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Posted 21 December 2022 - 08:05 AM

It all works out. There is a lot of extrapolation taking place, too.

Like, are there adults in your house who are not your immediate family? Three census periods ago, someone identified that they lived in a suite, in the house you just bought. So those unrelated adults are likely living in that suite, whether you say it or not.

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#285 lanforod

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Posted 22 December 2022 - 09:03 AM

It’s not quite that high.

Statscan says 12% of lived in residential units are suites, or 590-units. Let’s say at the high end it’s 2 people per suite (likely lower), which works out to 1,180 people out of 12,235, or just under 10%. Even if it’s 3 people per suite, that’s still less than 15%.

 

That math then, if you use it, says theres probably 5000 SFH or non-suite homes (some townhouses up there, IIRC) in North Saanich. Is that about right?



#286 Mike K.

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Posted 22 December 2022 - 09:26 AM

Correct. NSaan is mostly SFDs.

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#287 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 16 January 2023 - 11:06 AM

Province announces 'one-stop shop' for homebuilding permits
 
B.C. Premier David Eby says the changes will help speed up provincial permitting approvals and home construction in the face of a housing crisis.
 


#288 Nparker

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Posted 16 January 2023 - 11:10 AM

...To start, 42 new full-time positions will prioritize housing that most urgently needs to be built...Once those positions are filled, the plan is to to increase the team to 203 positions

More bureaucracy always speeds up the process.  ;)

https://www.timescol...permits-6384624


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Posted 16 January 2023 - 11:20 AM

Spending 5 million more a year of our money to make our lives more affordable! 


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#290 dasmo

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Posted 16 January 2023 - 11:20 AM

More bureaucracy always speeds up the process.  ;)

https://www.timescol...permits-6384624

Wrong link....

https://www.youtube....h?v=7xNnRBksvOU


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#291 Nparker

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Posted 16 January 2023 - 11:28 AM

When we moved from physical sign-off approvals to "e-approvals" in the BC Public Service, the amount of work for administrative staff at least doubled.


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#292 Nparker

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Posted 16 January 2023 - 12:33 PM

When we moved from physical sign-off approvals to "e-approvals" in the BC Public Service, the amount of work for administrative staff at least doubled.

A few years before I retired, an entirely separate electronic approvals tracking system was established that duplicated about 75% of the information that continued to be simultaneously entered into the long established correspondence tracking system (aka CLIFF). At least 2 full-time staff at the MoH were employed to monitor and maintain the e-approvals system.


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#293 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 10 April 2023 - 07:59 AM

In a report to an affordable housing committee meeting in 2019, Saanich staff estimated one in two of these houses already contained a suite. Within the same year, staff reported to council that only 195 (1.1 per cent) of homes in Saanich had a licensed suite.

 

And therein lies the problem. Without licensing, there is no assurance minimum building standards have been met in these suites risking the health and safety of both tenants and neighbours.

 

Faulty wiring, asbestos, mould, an inadequate number of exits, even the absence of smoke detectors could all exist. The absence of licensing also means the landlord is not required to provide on-site parking.

 

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Further, by not licensing the homes with suites, municipal taxes are not being collected from the homeowner on the additional residents living on their property.

 

Yet these additional residents draw on Saanich’s municipal services, drive on our roads, may need police assistance and use the libraries.

 

Is it any wonder why Saanich’s taxes went up 6.67 per cent in 2022 and have risen another 6.8 per cent in 2023? If the provincial government needs to revise the laws surrounding how municipal taxes are determined, switching from a per property basis to a resident and tenant formula, now is the time to do it.

 

I’m confident municipalities will be involved in permitting any redeveloped properties where housing is replaced and therefore safety and taxing issues will be addressed.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...housing-6829792

 

 

 

 

I think there are lots of holes in this letter.  Is there any actual indicators that there is mold, wiring and other issues in houses with secondary suites?

 

The tax thing doesn't add up either.


Edited by Victoria Watcher, 10 April 2023 - 08:02 AM.


#294 Nparker

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Posted 10 April 2023 - 08:01 AM

 

...The absence of licensing also means the landlord is not required to provide on-site parking

Starlight was very nearly required not to provide (much) onsite parking. 



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Posted 10 April 2023 - 09:37 AM

 

In a report to an affordable housing committee meeting in 2019, Saanich staff estimated one in two of these houses already contained a suite. Within the same year, staff reported to council that only 195 (1.1 per cent) of homes in Saanich had a licensed suite.

 

And therein lies the problem. Without licensing, there is no assurance minimum building standards have been met in these suites risking the health and safety of both tenants and neighbours.

 

Faulty wiring, asbestos, mould, an inadequate number of exits, even the absence of smoke detectors could all exist. The absence of licensing also means the landlord is not required to provide on-site parking.

 

______________________

 

Further, by not licensing the homes with suites, municipal taxes are not being collected from the homeowner on the additional residents living on their property.

 

Yet these additional residents draw on Saanich’s municipal services, drive on our roads, may need police assistance and use the libraries.

 

Is it any wonder why Saanich’s taxes went up 6.67 per cent in 2022 and have risen another 6.8 per cent in 2023? If the provincial government needs to revise the laws surrounding how municipal taxes are determined, switching from a per property basis to a resident and tenant formula, now is the time to do it.

 

I’m confident municipalities will be involved in permitting any redeveloped properties where housing is replaced and therefore safety and taxing issues will be addressed.

 

 

 

https://www.timescol...housing-6829792

 

 

 

 

I think there are lots of holes in this letter.  Is there any actual indicators that there is mold, wiring and other issues in houses with secondary suites?

 

The tax thing doesn't add up either.

 

Watch for the words "progressive taxation" in the language of the more lefterly of the left populists we are suffering under here...

 

It's code words for the new left NDP to "tax and redistribute" for their version of fairness (called equity.) "Progressive taxation" looks for any way to redistribute, and the SF Homeowner is a favourite avatar for their hatred. Born, in part, out of envy, entitlement, and disappointment, I fear... 


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#296 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 10 April 2023 - 09:39 AM

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Luckily, he is being ratioed.  



 



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