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#1281 G-Man

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Posted 16 August 2024 - 08:12 AM

I am going to assume you mean the Bamfield article and some of the best ones in that bunch of photos were the film photos I took. They just turned out really well!


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#1282 Sparky

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Posted 16 August 2024 - 11:36 AM

All of your photos seem crystal clear. 😊

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Posted 16 August 2024 - 07:40 PM

Thanks Sparky!


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#1284 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 16 August 2024 - 07:46 PM

Ya they have a richness to them. Even if the neighbourhood looks a bit haggard.

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Posted 25 August 2024 - 08:41 PM

My latest post is up and it is another travel post. This time I look at Point Roberts Washington and some of the great things to do there. 

 

https://www.sidewalk...n-point-roberts


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Posted 08 September 2024 - 07:04 AM

New post up on Sidewalking Victoria this morning on Millie's Lane and how I think with some simple steps, we could make it a great place downtown! #yyj #urbanism #victoriabc

https://www.sidewalk...ng-millies-lane


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#1287 Mike K.

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Posted 08 September 2024 - 07:13 AM

Great insights as always, G-man!

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Posted 29 September 2024 - 07:46 AM

There is a new post up on Sidewalking Victoria this morning. How can we turn Victoria into a 'Sponge City'? And I know what you are thinking, what is a sponge city?! Have a read and let me know what you think. 
https://www.sidewalk...o-a-sponge-city


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#1289 max.bravo

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Posted 29 September 2024 - 09:42 PM

No thanks. The swale trend has only resulted in lost parking spaces and an over abundance of gross weedy concrete-bordered islands of yuck.

Don’t get me wrong - in general it’s a great idea to aim for reducing the flashiness of urban impermeable surfaces. But it’s about as applicable here as California-style water conservation dogma is.

With our shallow soils and nearby bedrock, we reach peak soil saturation early in winter. Often by November. While there is probably some benefit to filtering road runoff through some media before it empties direct to the ocean, there is absolutely no benefit in terms of ‘recharging groundwater’ - at least in any of our 13 municipalities. Probably SSI & the islands are an exception because of their insufficient water supply (which itself is a problem that could easily be overcome by building reservoirs with greater capacity).

And on a more practical note, you say that a good solution for flood-prone neighborhoods is to store / locally recharge the rainwater at its source rather than move it away. That is plain wrong. Anyone who’s ever installed a perimeter drain or had water issues around their lot knows the most effective way to get rid of water is to send it far away from your house in a PVC pipe.

There is absolutely no reason for Victoria to become a ‘sponge city’. The best case in point is the ridiculous ’rain garden’ the city installed in fisherman’s wharf park. https://www.kwl.ca/p...nd-rain-garden/

Visit that place in any season and it’s a mess of weeds, garbage, and muck. And for what? To locally recharge the soils with groundwater and filter it approximately 150’ from the ocean… where the water is continually hit with bilge oil and other contaminants anyway. It’s the definition of a trendy make-work project with no actual benefits. It just resulted in the loss of a big section of a nice grass field.

Please don’t misunderstand me. I’m a fan of this concept in general, and I think bigger cities with different geography absolutely need to think of this stuff. But here in Victoria, it’s a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist.

Side note: I recently learned of a couple in Saanich who paved a lot of their yard for additional parking, however once Saanich found out, they were fined or had levies added to their property tax for violating some kind of permeability bylaw…. I’m sure their neighbors’ wells were severely affected by the extra 800 sq ft of concrete!!!

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Posted 07 October 2024 - 08:53 PM

Here's my completely arbitrary and selfish list of the best sweet treats in Downtown Victoria. Tell me why I'm wrong.

https://www.sidewalk...wntown-victoria
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#1291 UDeMan

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Posted 07 October 2024 - 09:08 PM

#6 Dutch Bakery Vanilla Slice

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Posted 07 October 2024 - 09:31 PM

Thank you for the reminder to go to Patisserie!!!
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Posted 07 October 2024 - 10:00 PM

Here's my completely arbitrary and selfish list of the best sweet treats in Downtown Victoria. Tell me why I'm wrong.

https://www.sidewalk...wntown-victoria


All fabulous, I could never pick. Dutch Bakery, murchies also way up there. As packed as murchies is, it feels underrated.
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#1294 Matt R.

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Posted 07 October 2024 - 10:01 PM

Thank you for the reminder to go to Patisserie!!!


Jones and patisserie Daniel make that neighborhood an 8 instead of a 2.
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#1295 Mike K.

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Posted 08 October 2024 - 06:09 AM

Anything to report on the Logan’s space?

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#1296 G-Man

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Posted 08 October 2024 - 06:41 AM

It's for lease if you want it. The main part of the old bar is now the liquor store.

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#1297 Mike K.

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Posted 08 October 2024 - 06:45 AM

Oh yeah, they had a tiny liquor store from what I recall.

All the money is in the bar-associated liquor stores now. The bars are usually money losers and not worth the effort. So the liquor stores are the only remnants that stay open, and in the case of Logan’s, have expanded.

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Posted 14 October 2024 - 08:25 AM

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Sidewalking Victoria, The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network and the Dock are excited to host a discussion on Downtown Victoria, with the aim of looking for ways to make our city more vibrant and healthy for everyone. 

https://www.eventbri...s-1045288154007


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#1299 Victoria Watcher

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Posted 15 October 2024 - 02:41 AM

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

Sidewalking Victoria, The Greater Victoria Placemaking Network and the Dock are excited to host a discussion on Downtown Victoria, with the aim of looking for ways to make our city more vibrant and healthy for everyone. 

https://www.eventbri...s-1045288154007

 

 

This is a good idea.

 

But the solution is not easily at hand here, I'm afraid.  Until someone is willing to tackle the general vagrancy, it will not be solved.  And nobody is willing to do that.


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#1300 G-Man

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Posted 15 October 2024 - 12:07 PM

That is just one of the challenges facing downtown. There is also office vacancy, the impacts of online retail, cruise ship passengers vs other tourists (No airbnb), housing, but also new housing downtown, the impacts of housing next to light industrial and the list goes on and on and on. I am hoping that we can be a little more broad in the conversation than just how do we solve homelessness...


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