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[VicHockeyFan]

Here is a funny story.  There is a bar, outside the core, that has a homeless guy sleeping in his van in their parking lot.  He looks after the lot, keeps it clean and also sort of offers night-time security in the lot to prevent break-ins and whatnot, and in exchange he gets to stay there and gets one free meal per day from the bar.  One of the bartenders, that's a good friend, explained the set-up to me.

[Mike K.]

Oh, gone are the days when you didn't need a guy providing night time security at a bar parking lot.

[Nparker]

NParker clearly supports the homeless in their plight

I support their move to Oak Bay!

Edited by Nparker, 11 October 2017 - 07:44 AM.

[Mike K.]

Not to worry, the OBPD will shuttle them to the Victoria border any second now.

[VicHockeyFan]

OBPD says they can stay for a week, then they will clean up after them.  Can a machete pierce a tent's defences?

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 11 October 2017 - 08:02 AM.

[Nparker]

Not to worry, the OBPD will shuttle them to the Victoria border any second now.

Well it's not like OBPD have anything else to do

[VicHockeyFan]

Mt. Edwards rezoning is at council tomorrow night.

 

78 supportive units, 15 others.  

Residents to be 50+.

No illicit drug use allowed on premises.

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 11 October 2017 - 09:23 AM.

[spanky123]

^ That is what they feel they need to say to get the rezoning approved. Question is who is going to enforce any of this after the fact and what is the recourse if they fail to adhere to the plan?

[VicHockeyFan]

^ I suppose they can be fined, or ordered somehow to adhere to the zoning, by the city getting a court injunction.  I suppose a private citizen or organization can also sue them.

[Jackerbie]

Mt. Edwards rezoning is at council tomorrow night.

 

78 supportive units, 15 others.  

Residents to be 50+.

No illicit drug use allowed on premises.

 

I thought it was the Tally Ho temporary use permit going to Council tomorrow

 

Edit: Tally Ho TUP is going to COTW in the morning, Mount Edwards is going to Council in the evening. CoV confuses me.

Edited by Jackerbie, 11 October 2017 - 11:36 AM.

[VicHockeyFan]

Maybe it's both, but I just read the agenda for tomorrow all about MEdwards.

[tjv]

Not to worry, the OBPD will shuttle them to the Victoria border any second now.

I guess this just proves OB won't.  Luckily out here in Central Saanich my biggest problem in the last year is when my neighbors dog did their business on my lawn

[VicHockeyFan]

I guess this just proves OB won't.  Luckily out here in Central Saanich my biggest problem in the last year is when my neighbors dog did their business on my lawn

 

Well, you do have Canada's worst sexual assault case uptake rate.

[Bingo]

Well it's not like OBPD have anything else to do

 

Just like some of the posters on here.

[tjv]

Well, you do have Canada's worst sexual assault case uptake rate.

are you talking about the guy they arrested in Nanaimo who did this 30 years ago here?

[VicHockeyFan]

are you talking about the guy they arrested in Nanaimo who did this 30 years ago here?

No.

http://www.peninsula...sexual-assault/

[tjv]

did you read the article? big difference once you get the entire story

What Sylven said is that those 15 of 25 did not result in charges.

“That is a long way from saying we don’t believe you,” he said.

A breakdown of the 15 is as follows, according to Sylven:

• six had insufficient evidence to charge someone

• four resulted in the victim coming back later and saying the sexual assault didn’t happen

• three were what they call third party reporting, where someone else reported the sexual assault and the victim said it wasn’t the case

• two were not considered sexual assaults.

...anyway back to the homeless.  Anybody go down and sing kumbaya my lord around the fire, some some wacky tobacco, or roast marsh mellows with them haha

[VicHockeyFan]

I read the article. But I’m not going to automatically believe Sylven like you are.

[spanky123]

^ I wouldn't automatically believe Sylven either but note that the entire original G&M story seems to have fallen by the wayside.

[VicHockeyFan]

Central Saanich now has that stereo menace too.

 

Does anyone know what happened with Mt. Edwards last night?

 

EDIT:  Mt. Edwards passed.  Just Young opposed (Madoff absent, Coleman recused).

Edited by VicHockeyFan, 13 October 2017 - 07:55 AM.