There is a position for an Accounting Clerk up on the City of Langford Employment page:

Position: Accounting Clerk
Term: Full time position
Closing Date: Monday, September 27, 2010
Description:
Read the rest of this entry »

There are suggestions that a group of residents are preparing a class action lawsuit against Western Speedway.

An ad was posted on UsedVictoria.com on August 23, and was removed in the last few days, but is still available in a cached Version on Google:

“We are looking for anyone that has lost the Quiet Enjoyment of their home due to the ongoing noise from Western Speedway. The City of Langford has created the problem by promoting development around the track without any thought regarding the effects of the noise, and not doing anything to fix the problem. The City has ignored the residents and complaints long enough. You have a right to enjoy your home. We wil get a list of residents and then go ahead with legal action.”

The ad is cached in its original form, but it was updated shortly before being removed to add a Read the rest of this entry »

The agendas are up for both Monday night’s Langford Council meeting and Wednesday afternoon’s Protective Services committee meeting.

The Parks, Recreation, Culture and Beautification Committee met on Mon. Aug. 23rd and were asked to consider two topics:

First the committee considered if changes were needed to dog leash laws due to:

“Staff is receiving an increase in the number of complaints from residents regarding the use of sports fields by people walking their dogs in these parks. In addition, the lack of control these individuals exercise whose dogs are off-leash, have caused a great deal of discomfort and fear as these dogs have approached other park users, sometimes in an aggressive manner.” (quoted from staff report to committee)

Jason Parks, Parks manager reported many of the complaints were about new parks, like City Centre Park’s artificial turf fields and the tot playground at Centennial Park. Councilor Roger Wade related an incident from Valley View where Read the rest of this entry »

There are three agendas up for the coming week:

Planning, Zoning, & Affordable Housing agenda

Admin & Finance

Transportation & Public Works

The last council meeting went until after 9PM and covered a lot of information, so this report on that meeting is very long, so here’s some interesting tidbits to get you started:

- City Planner Matthew Baldwin’s explanation that the City of Langford has opted out of the province’s site remediation program, so ensuring the property is not contaminated would be solely the responsibility of the developer,
- concerns about fire safety with a near-zero setback of approximately 6 inches were answered with quidelines require the building material on that setback be noncombustible
- City Engineer John Manson explained, “speed bumps are a hazard to our community, as they could cause an accident with our emergency vehicles,”
- Councillor Szpak said, “sidewalks and beautification are coming along as we develop,” and, “we do not have building heights in the (new) OCP,”
- residents were repeatedly told to “bring their concerns before the Transportation and Public Works Committee,”
- City Planner, Matthew Baldwin in response to concerns about property damage and injury from blasting said, “that’s why blasting companies have so much insurance,”
- Coucillor Lillian Szpak explained to a local resident that, “anyone who has an interest in it has a right to speak” at a Langford Public Hearing.

There were 4 Public Hearings: Read the rest of this entry »

A quick note that for about the last half hour or so, that the Goldstream/Veteran’s Memorial intersection signals have not been working. The train alarm is going off constantly and four-way stop rules are in effect.

**Update: the traffic signals are working fine again**

CITY OF LANGFORD
REGULAR MEETING OF COUNCIL
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010 @ 7:00 p.m.
Council Chambers, 3rd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue
AGENDA
[...]
4. TEMPORARY USE PERMIT
a) TUP-10-01 – 923, 927, 931 Walfred Road 017
b) TUP 10-02 – 721 Station Avenue 030
Read the rest of this entry »