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Flippin’ out on a free ride
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Quinten Erichsen of Sidney performs a backflip as he takes off from one of the larger jumps at the North Saanich Free Ride Park. Erichsen says he rides every day and the two flips he completed during the photo shoot were the first he had done at the park. The Free Ride Park is located on Littlewood Road, off Mills Road.
Glen Meadows proposal falls into the rough North Saanich denies owners’ request to split golf course into farm, residential parcels Steven Heywood
June committee decision to reject a proposal by the golf course’s owners, the Criddle family. They had sought to rezone the 130 acre property, splitting it into 100 acres of farmland and approximately 30 acres of residential space. Mayor Alice Finall says the council’s committee a month ago felt there were too
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North Saanich is not going to entertain further a proposal to turn the Glen Meadows Golf Club into farm land and residential homes. On Monday night, council re-affirmed a
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many uncertainties about the plan, as well as a growing number of residents lining up against it. That opposition, she said, came to a head in recent weeks with a majority of letters and feedback from residents opposing it. “Council denied the application, period,” Finall said. “As usual, we received a great
many letters, both in support but there were a great many in opposition. She characterized many of the letters supporting the proposal as ‘boilerplate’, while most letters opposed to the plan were not. Please see: Public opposition to the plan, page 5