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[Citified.ca]

 

 

Citified profile: https://victoria.cit...island-highway/

 

View Royal's Cambridge Motel property adjacent to township's Island Hwy fire hall pitched as site for three rental blocks

https://victoria.cit...-rental-blocks/

[AllseeingEye]

Have often driven by and wondered about this property; nice looking proposal and since its a rental hopefully a slam dunk.....

[Nparker]

Will the former highway1A be able to handle increased traffic in its current state as a cow path?

[Mike K.]

Goat trail, you mean.

[GaryOak]

Ok the bus service through that stretch is pretty horrible at the moment

[Ismo07]

Will the former highway1A be able to handle increased traffic in its current state as a cow path?

 

Added turn lane there it'll be fine...  I drive that often...  It's a fine route.

[Mike K.]

One of the buildings on this property (the four unit building) had a fire overnight. A cat died, unfortunately. There were no other serious injuries.

[Citified.ca]

 

The project switched from three buildings to two, and dropped the unit count from just under 260 units to 238.

 

View Royal approves 238-unit Island Highway rental community opposite Fort Victoria RV Park

https://victoria.cit...ctoria-rv-park/

[Victoria Watcher]

^ one bus.  two cars.  TEN pedestrians.  In all of history that stretch has never had that kind of count.    

 

One trailer park.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 19 December 2023 - 09:00 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

A “sad stretch” of View Royal is headed for a makeover.

 

Council is expected to approve final rezoning for a collection of three properties along the Island Highway that include the site of the former Cambridge Motel.

 

Developer Boardwalk and Invictus Commercial Investment Corp. plan to build two six-storey buildings with 238 rental units on the land between View Royal’s new fire hall and Prince Robert Drive.

 

A third reading passed in December on a 5-2 vote, with Mayor Sid Tobias and Coun. Ron Mattson opposed, and a final vote is expected this month to green-light the project.

 

“That spot, it’s always been a sad stretch of View Royal waiting for promise,” said Coun. Gery Lemon, calling it “past time” for the property to be redeveloped.

 

She said previous councils have always had concerns, but the property owner only recently decided to sell.

 

Project architect Rob Whetter of Vancouver Island-based de Hoog & Kierulf Architects told council that redevelopment of the former Cambridge Motel site has long been anticipated because the existing buildings are past their usable economic life and their current use doesn’t conform to the existing zoning.

 

 

https://www.timescol...w-royal-8094725