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[Mike K.]

Perhaps it will steer the conversation towards a single police force for the lower four munis.

Now that bars are reopening and night life re-emerging we can expect police resources downtown to be stretched as thin as they could ever possibly be stretched. Already one murder in the days following the reopening and I can assure you there was plenty of mayhem on the streets tonight, and will be Saturday night.

[Barrrister]

The whole point of this consultation is to avoid a referendum and have the province simply impose amalgamation. Eby is pushing for it. 

[Spy Black]

The whole point of this consultation is to avoid a referendum and have the province simply impose amalgamation. Eby is pushing for it. 

Under current government policy (not just the NDP, but B.C. Gov't's procedures in general), imposing amalgamation isn't on the table. 

Don't conflate imposing a policing restructure (the domain of the Eby, the AG) with full blown amalgamation (the domain of Cullenm, the Municipal Affairs Minister).

 

The Province long ago got rid of any form of "forced" amalgamation, replacing it with referendum based process that requires a 50%+ vote before it can proceed.

 

It's all here:

https://www2.gov.bc....ing_changes.pdf

[Cats4Hire]

I did a Google search for Saanich just now, and this came up.  I guess it's showing me downtown Saanich?

 

screenshot-www.google.com-2022.03.25-10_34_20.png

 

You would not wish that downtown on your worst municipal enemy.  But here we are.  

 

But that's Uptown! How can Uptown be downtown 

[Mike K.]

It’s funny, come to think of it, how much high-fiving is taking place over the Uptown Plan, and its 24-storey heights at a few spots, and its calls for density. Langford, meanwhile, builds the entire current Uptown area’s actively proposed residential density every dang year and Victorians be like “bruh, but where’s the on-street parking!?”

And just watch. In the time Langford builds another 1,000 units in its downtown core, barely one project will have completed at Uptown.

[Nparker]

The feet dragging around the Uptown residential component is embarrassing.

[todd]

The whole point of this consultation is to avoid a referendum and have the province simply impose amalgamation. Eby is pushing for it.

I thought it was just to waste money. again

Edited by todd, 26 March 2022 - 09:39 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

No amalgamation with Victoria, please

 

I appreciate the concern about an amalgamation between Saanich and Victoria, but please don’t offer to pass the buck to Oak Bay, Esquimalt or any municipality, for that matter.

 

Until Victoria voters show the ability to vote in responsible councillors and mayors, unlike the narcissistic lunatics, anarchists and activists that have dominated Victoria’s council for the past eight years, no practical citizen in any other municipality would touch amalgamation with a 10-foot bike lane.

 

As for Oak Bay, it’s time to man the wall/Tweed Curtain. Which should be easy, as Victoria is already blocking traffic back and forth into Oak Bay already.

 

Barrie Moen
Oak Bay

 

 

https://www.timescol...ictoria-5237073

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 06 April 2022 - 05:29 AM.

[aastra]

 

Until Victoria voters show the ability to vote in responsible councillors and mayors, unlike the narcissistic lunatics, anarchists and activists that have dominated Victoria’s council for the past eight years, no practical citizen in any other municipality would touch amalgamation with a 10-foot bike lane.

 

Now we're blaming Ben Isitt and Lisa Helps for 120 years of amalgamation controversy. By my rough count that would be reason #185,001.

[lanforod]

Those two just put the ! on the previous 185000 reasons.

[Victoria Watcher]

Jack Knox: It's not about how we're policed, but how we're governed

Greater Victoria is overseen by a patchwork of councils, each with its own agenda and suite of services. No other Canadian community of this size is divided this way.


https://www.timescol...overned-5721666

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 August 2022 - 04:29 AM.

[dasmo]

The community isn’t divided, the government is. Which is good. Makes them less able to ram a single agenda down all our throats…