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[Victoria Watcher]

It’s really not much more than a bog. That we used to fill in. Sometimes with garbage.

[AllseeingEye]

Actually it really was a full blown 'proper' lake up until the mid-70's when massive algae blooms resulted from decades of pesticide and especially fertilizer runoff going directly into it from local farms as far away as the Blenkinsop Valley, as well as runoff from at least two wineries which discharged thousands of kilograms of sludge from the wine fermentation process directly into the lake; in addition to periodic sewer discharges from a Saanich treatment plant at McKenzie and Quadra. All those nutrients being introduced into the ecosystem resulted in the wetland-overgrowth we see today.

 

Yet even today in its significantly reduced state its winter flood plain almost quadruples the water surface area to close to 80 acres according to the Swan Lake Nature sanctuary. Fifty years ago (yes I'm old) I remember as a very young yard ape the lake being closer to that latter size virtually all year round.

[amor de cosmos]

new renderings at the bottom of this page: https://www.saanich....anich-core.html

[Nparker]

Here are a couple of the the elevations: 

 

https://www.saanich....aanich-elev.pdf

 

[Victoria Watcher]

Not too colourful.

[Nparker]

Indeed. It's not very architecturally interesting either, but then again, what is nowadays (at least locally)?

[Mike K.]

Aren’t these the renderings from the previous page?

[Nparker]

I posted a couple of the renderings for anyone who didn't to wade through the pdf document from Saanich's web page.

[downtownlurker]

Got excited that the tower looked svelte... then scrolled further down...

[Nparker]

A new rendering of this project has been spotted by thegreatscaper..

Almost a year later. Any news?

[Mike K.]

Nope.

[Nparker]

So the regional housing crisis really is over. Cool. 

[aastra]

Methinks the Uptown corner would be a legitimately decent spot for testing the viability of a large residential building with no parking.

[Mike K.]

A report that just went to council identifies the residential project as 318 units, but also 329 units.

It looks like this is finally making some headway.

[spanky123]

Methinks the Uptown corner would be a legitimately decent spot for testing the viability of a large residential building with no parking.

 

Yeah, the tenants can park in the retail lots!

[Nparker]

8 years to get from this 

to this

and still nothing has been built.

[Victoria Watcher]

Somebody should do the same to Gateway Village.

[Nparker]

Somebody should do the same to Gateway Village.

You mean propose something now and maybe start construction sometime around 2035?