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[phx]

Looking at the Victoria GIS maps, it appears there are several properties that are split across the Victoria / Oak Bay boundary.

How does that work? Do they owners pay proportionate taxes to each municipality, or are they assigned to one for taxation purposes?

[Linear Thinker]

Not an official explanation, but read here...
http://amalgamationyes.ca/history
Describes situations with boundary straddling lots.

Maybe more complex, 730 Sea Terrace.
5 unit strata complex, 2 in Esquimalt, 3 in Victoria.
The boundary is where the concrete curb ends in Victoria and the asphalt curb begins in Esquimalt.
If you park illegally 1/2 way across the boundary, who gives the ticket?

[Mike K.]

I think she knows the answer to that question

I had no idea so many of our municipalities are so ...young. View Royal was incorporated in 1988? It's the most senseless of all municipalities in this region, a chimera of Esquimalt, Colwood and Saanich, but the way its residents defend against amalgamation you'd think it's been its own fiefdom since the late 1800's or something. And Langford didn't exist as a corporate entity until 1992? Colwood until 1985? Metchosin until 1984? Sooke until 1999? What the heck.