There’s a large agenda for tomorrow’s Council Meeting, so city staff have broken it into three parts as has been their custom for the last couple of years.

Part 1 lays out what’s to be discussed and is the first one you should download, and then you can download part 2 and/or part 3 depending on the topics that interest you. The agenda is copied below (with housekeeping issues such as “CALL TO ORDER” and file references removed for easy reading):

3. PUBLIC HEARING
a) BYLAW NO. 1270 “Langford Zoning Bylaw, Amendment No. 279, (1018 Lomalinda Drive), 2010″.

6. DEVELOPMENT VARIENCE PERMIT
a) DP-10-08 – 926 Rowils Crescent (File No. DVP-10-08) 048
b) DVP-09-17-3240 Jacklin Road 052
c) DVP-09-20 – 662 Goldstream Avenue 056
d) DVP-10-03-2916 Aprell Place 059

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The agendas for this week’s Planning, Zoning, and Affordable Housing committee meeting, as well as for the Transportation and Public Works committee, are available for download.

Unusually, the two meetings have an agenda item in common: An “Application to Rezone 685 Fairway Avenue from R2 (One and Two Family Residential) to RS3 (Residential Small Lot 3) and MU1A (Mixed Use Residential Commercial A) to allow for one single family dwelling and two live-work units; and to request that the parking requirement per dwelling unit for the proposed RS3 (Residential Small Lot 3) zoned lot be rounded down.”

The other agenda items are listed below.

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Initially the Westshore waste water/sewage project, like many projects on the Westshore, was to be a private project; the selling point being that would save the local taxpayers money.

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While Easter Monday is not a statutory holiday, Langford Council is celebrating the bank holiday by holding their first council meeting of April on Tuesday rather than the traditional Monday. There are several interesting items on the agenda (copied below, with routine items such as adoption of the minutes removed), including a revenue anticipation bylaw.

A revenue anticipation bylaw allows the City of Langford to perform short-term borrowing in anticipation of future revenues. This allows the City to borrow money to maintain its operations until it receives the revenue it’s anticipating. Most of the money to repay the loan would come in by the end of June, as the first business day in July is the deadline for payment of property taxes (the main source of revenue for a municipality).

Other previously controversial issues back on the agenda include new development on Walfred Road and pressing forward with a road closure at Granderson and Goldstream.

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3. PUBLIC HEARING…Langford Zoning Bylaw… (935 Walfred Road)

8. REPORTS
a) Statutory Building Scheme for Various Properties on Walfred
b) Granderson and Goldstream Road Closure & Disposition – Alteration of Plan Number
c) Revenue Anticipation Bylaw

9. CORRESPONDENCE
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For those who may have missed it, part 1 can be read here.

In response to VIC-FAN in court today, Langford attempting to get case dismissed:

- Stalled Spencer Interchange addressed Ron Coutre (of the South Skirt Mountain development) and his claim that “VIC FAN’s legal action has delayed the group from seeking financing to start building the upper road”.

- An Anonymous commenter mentioned they were “a resident of the Parkdale Creek phase of the Westhills development. We are experiencing extreme parking issues now that there is no on-street parking permited in front of our homes” and asked me about getting minutes from the meetings where parking was discussed? Before I could even respond, a response came from Tick Tock with advice on how to get the info. Another Anonymous poster noted that had “seen the Planning and Zoning Committee turn down many applications that requested reduced parking ratios. It seems now that the Committee is doing a 180 degree turn for Westhills, does anyone know why?” Tick Tock responded to that with a strong opinion. Finally, the original Anonymous poster gave us their experience with parking as a resident of the development.

In the article South Skirt Mountain court case to continue:

WTFZOE took issue with a comment that I was unable to approve due to it being potentially libelous. WTFZOE made some additional allegations. Ultimately I guess we agreed to disagree. Regarding the second set of allegations, an Anonymous poster noted that celebrities often don’t use their real names, but WTFZOE was not swayed by that argument. Finally, Zoe waded in with a statement on the subjects of libel, using a “pen name”, and how she felt “This anonymous commenter is proving my case for me”.

- Tammy offered up her rationale for defending our remaining green spaces, No Longer Shocked weighed in with her thoughts on the state of democracy and public discussion in Langford, and Tick Tock said this “is really a microcosm of what is happening all over the so called “free” world.”

In the post Westshore publically owned waste water/sewage treatment option is back:

- Cheryl McLachlan noted “A new report by B.C.’s most respected forensic accountant, Ron Parks, finds in favour of public operation of sewage treatment in the Capital Regional District (CRD),” and Anonymous asked “Did any of the elected Westshore politicians actually campaign on privatization of sewage treatment? Did they even hint that they were looking at splitting from the CRD & setting up their own utility (which would like be privately run), and that this might include water services? If not, then they don’t have a mandate from the electorate to do this. I guarantee you that most Westshore residents haven’t got a clue that this is what’s coming down the pipes for them.”

Finally, in the dying hours of the month, What Goes Around…. added one final Reader News comment, an article from the Goldstream Gazette entitled “End of an era at Bear Mountain”.