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Swell day for a swim, eh mayors? From left, Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps, Saanich Mayor Richard Atwell and Esquimalt Mayor Barb Desjardins go retro with some old-fashioned mustaches to match their swimsuits outside As Voted By Ourvintage Readers Victoria City Hall in promotion of the fourth annual Gorge Swim Fest, set for Sunday Aug. 9 in Bamfield Park and Esquimalt Gorge Park. Don Denton/News staff
Langford mayor blasts Saanich on sewage site rejection Council’s refusal to send Watkiss Way site to CRD committee flies in face of public process: Stew Young Daniel Palmer News staff
Langford’s mayor believes Saanich councillors are shirking public process after they refused to forward a 12-hectare property for consideration to the Capital Regional District’s eastside sewage committee. Saanich council voted 5-4 to block the 12-hectare Watkiss Way
site – across the street from Victoria General Hospital – from further consideration as a sewage treatment site, with the majority arguing sewage facilities shouldn’t be built on agricultural land outside Saanich’s Urban Containment Boundary. The boundary protects rural land from most forms of development and would require a public vote to alter, Coun. Judy Brownoff told councillors on Mon-
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day night. “There’s some misunderstanding maybe that we didn’t look at this site, but at the CRD they did (previously) look at this site and evaluate it, high level, and the CRD directors turned this site down,” said Brownoff, who subsequently voted down the proposal along with Dean Murdock, Susan Brice, Vic Derman and Vicki Sanders. “I don’t support an industrial
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use like this in the ALR and I don’t support opening up the Urban Containment Boundary,” Brownoff said. The forested Watkiss Way property is owned by Allen Vandekerkove, who also owns the surrounding properties and is open to either selling or leasing the land to the Capital Regional District or swapping it for another CRDowned parcel.
On Tuesday, Langford Mayor Stew Young said Saanich councillors are playing politics at a time when they should be engaging the public on finding the best site for sewage treatment. “I don’t see how politicians think they know better than the experts,” Young said. PlEASE SEE: Watkiss Way, Page A8
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