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[GaryOak]

Esquimalt is as well but they're building like crazy. Times change.

[Victoria Watcher]

We should master plan an awesome city on the coast near Sooke. We are so lame.

Or on all the hills surrounding Lake Cowichan. It could look like the Mediterranean.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 May 2023 - 02:53 PM.

[dasmo]

Esquimalt is as well but they're building like crazy. Times change.

Of course. No need to force a certain change on people who might not want it. 

[dasmo]

I believe that is called colonisation.... Oh the Irony! 

[Victoria Watcher]

I think we can fit 500,000 around Lake Cowichan, it’s as long as our peninsula is tall.

[dasmo]

We could fit a lot of 20 story apartments here! Then we could colonise the coloniser. Perfect. 

 

https://ltgov.bc.ca/interactive-map/

[Victoria Watcher]

Yes!!! That’ll teach the King.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 May 2023 - 03:19 PM.

[GaryOak]

Lets do that and colonize Oak Bay

[Victoria Watcher]

We should reject Government House like we rejected the Victoria casino.

[LJ]

Why don't we just say we are full, go away?

 

If the government wants housing built, make a new city where land is cheap. 

 

When that city gets full, build another one.

[LJ]

Well the federal government is offering infrastructure funding for municipalities that reach a certain housing target, and I'm not seeing Oak Bay chopping at the bit to get them.

Nobody chops at the bit, chomping or preferably champing.

[dasmo]

It’s about taking away what we have not giving to those that have not. That’s why.

[LJ]

@dasmo, did you ever watch the Australian TV show Secret City? It's all about government overreach and making you safer by restricting your freedoms.

 

Very good show.

[dasmo]

I have not. But it sounds familiar. Haha.

[Sparky]

Nobody chops at the bit, chomping or preferably champing.

Somebody besides me listens to Bill Burr.

[Victoria Watcher]

Saanich is 1,136.

Langford 1,124.

Metchosin 72.8.

North Cowichan 163.

North Saanich 301.

Colwood 1,073.

Highlands 58.5.

Sooke 229.

View Royal 724.

 

 

 

 

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 01 June 2023 - 03:51 AM.

[Victoria Watcher]

https://www.areavibe...y/demographics/

 

[todd]

Why must Oak Bay take more, when almost every other municipality or city in the province has lower density now?

Because people are discriminatory\jealous of Oak Bay for some reason. I usually avoid telling people I live in Oak Bay.

Historically Oak Bay has been at the forefront of development with other municipalities lagging far behind. http://www.webturf.c...tasy/index.html

[Mike K.]

Oak Bay is great. But they did themselves no favour by rejecting that little Quest project, in among other buildings of its size. That decision turned the current politically for Oak Bay and they can never walk that back now.

If they had added 50 units a year nobody would be batting an eye, and the province would be focusing elsewhere. But when Esquimalt is going gangbusters, and Oak Bay won't approve 15 units on the Avenue, we have a problem.

[Mike K.]

And that Turkey Head project, I mean it’s prime waterfront land that the district wants to turn into a bazaar. Stuff like that doesn’t shake out in 2023. Every district in the region has to take some of the weight here, you can’t have Sooke growing by thousands of people every census period and Oak Bay denies 15 unit buildings, right? Nobody likes change in their neighbourhood, and when one district rejects it, it places more pressure elsewhere.