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[Victoria Watcher]

The winner of Saturday’s byelection in North Saanich will be joining a “slow-moving ongoing train wreck,” according to a former district councillor.

The district has become deeply divided, amid a review of its Official Community Plan, between those who want to maintain the rural nature of the district, and those who would like to see more affordable housing constructed.

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Weisenberger expects Marshall is likely to win, because the advocacy group Save North Saanich has selected her as their preferred candidate.

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During the October election campaign, the group, which says it wants to keep the district rural, endorsed five of seven people who were elected, including Jones and councillors Celia Stock, Jack McClintock, Irene McConkey and Sanjiv Shrivastava.

Marshall, who has lived in North Saanich for the last 10 years, works for the Victoria Police Department and runs a small hobby farm that includes an apiary, said she is open to options for affordable housing that fit with the district’s rural character and green spaces.

https://www.timescol...aturday-7245324

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 07 July 2023 - 05:15 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Kristine Marshall is North Saanich’s newest elected councillor.

Marshall handily won the byelection on Saturday with 1,210 votes. The runner up, Ryan Lay, a lawyer who said he wanted to increase affordable housing in the municipality, received 471 votes. Raymon Farmere received 50 votes.

https://www.timescol...lection-7252532

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 July 2023 - 02:00 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

Once again, let's review:

 

 

I think NS has more than enough places to put a little density, without affecting the rest of the place.

 

This is the ALR map:

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 July 2023 - 03:13 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

 

^ I've taken the liberty to show where another 3,000-5,000 dense housing units can go, on less than 3% of the land base.

 

You're welcome.  

 

Can the airport help, can we put some housing here?

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 09 July 2023 - 03:25 AM.

[Sparky]

^ Have you every tried to sleep right next to an airport? I have.

 

Not cool.

[Victoria Watcher]

These are all houses.  Yes, not for everyone.  Know the situation before you move in.

 

 

   

[aastra]

 

^ Have you every tried to sleep right next to an airport? I have.

 

Not everyone has slept next to an airport, but most of us have probably slept inside an airport at some point. Methinks we're missing out on major housing opportunities in the middle of the terminal buildings.

[LJ]

^ Have you every tried to sleep right next to an airport? I have.

 

Not cool.

Residents of Burkeville don't seem to mind.

[GaryOak]

You get use to the noise.

[Victoria Watcher]

You get use to the noise.

 

And/or you build to mitigate sound impacts.  Can be done.

[Victoria Watcher]

North Saanich has approved a new timeline to complete its Official Community Plan update by early next year, after senior staff departures and the resignation of a consultant stalled the process.

The OCP update was initially intended to be complete by about June, but the timeline has been pushed back to next February.

Mayor Peter Jones said the delay shouldn’t add any cost to residents and he’s hearing little pushback from the community on the new timeline.

“It’s rare that when I’m out in the public that I would get a negative opinion on where we are with the OCP,” he said.

However, Coun. Jack McClintock said he has received more feedback from residents in the last week since the new timeline was established than he ever has on an issue in his three terms as a councillor.

“There’s a lot of frustration,” he said.

https://www.timescol...xt-year-8333707

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 February 2024 - 07:41 AM.

[Mike K.]

What’s rare, is to have a four lane freeway running through a community, and no housing density, while communities that are growing hand over fist, are told to sit down, and shut up about needing more road infrastructure.