Complete Parks, Recreation, Culture, and Beautification Committee meeting (PRCBC) agenda available here.

CITY OF LANGFORD
PARKS, RECREATION, CULTURE AND BEAUTIFICATION COMMITTEE MEETING
Monday, July 26th, 2010 at 5:00 p.m.
COUNCIL CHAMBERS
AGENDA
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4. REPORTS
a) Amendment to Animal Control Bylaw No. 1465
b) Heritage Trees on Humpback Road

Read part 1 of Monday’s Langford Council agenda here.

Read part 2 of Monday’s Langford Council agenda here.

Read the in-camera announcement for Monday’s Langford Council agenda here.

Here are some highlights:

3. PUBLIC HEARINGS
- Amendment to Valley View
- 2645 Peatt Road
- 3420 Luxton Road

5. PRESENTATION
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Read Monday’s PZ&AH agenda in full here.

CITY OF LANGFORD
PLANNING, ZONING AND AFFORDABLE HOUSING COMMITTEE
Monday, July 12th , 2010 @ 7:00 pm
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a) Application to Rezone 3332 Hazelwood Road from AG1 (Agriculture 1) to
CD14 (Comprehensive Development 14 – Hazelwood/Luxton) to Allow for the
Development of Approximately Nine Residential Lots and Eight Apartment
Units

2010-06-29
Vehicle Intercepted- Driver Arrested and Cocaine Seized

The Goldstream Gazette is reporting that the “Langford bowling centre [has been] pared back to fit budget.”

New estimates of the design apparently concluded it could not be done for the originally anticipated cost. The number of bowling lanes has been scaled back, and a planned restaurant scuttled entirely. The original plan had federal stimulus money being pared with money Langford had collected, and about $4 million more that the City would borrow. The intention was that the operator of the bowling alley and restaurant would pay the loan. Negotiations continue on whether that can now be accomplished on the scaled-back design. The original operator, a Surrey-based company, has also apparently had unrelated financial troubles recently.

Meanwhile, the Times Colonist is reporting that Bear Mountain now officially ‘on the map’.

Blog Green Langford has an interesting article on where the fault lines are in Langford. Langford has quite a number of fault lines, meaning we could be the epicentre for an earthquake some day. It’s worth a look for those at all curious about how close their home, work, or school is (one appears to go right underneath Belmont). The number of fault lines in Langford appears to be higher than most, perhaps all, of the rest of Greater Victoria.

Other recent Westshore RCMP news:

2010-06-14
Stabbing-Man in Stable Condition

2010-06-16
Suspects Turn Themselves in to Police

The Westshore RCMP released four press releases today in the Kimberly Proctor homicide investigation:

PRESS CONFERENCE – HOMICIDE UPDATE
Arrests Made in Kimberly Proctor Homicide Investigation
Charges Laid Against 16 Year Old Murder Suspect
Charges Laid Against Second Murder Suspect

At the suggestion of Inside Langford reader “Jay”, comments have been disabled out of respect for Kimberly Proctor’s family.

The graphic on the left of the screen (please visit http://insidelangford.ca/ if you’re viewing this in your email) is a summary of the Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) decisions regarding exclusion (removal of) land from the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) in Langford. With this batch processed, ALC staff member Gordon Bednard indicated recently in an email query that there are no ALR exclusion applications for Langford currently before the ALC. Please click on the graphic to expand it and read it in detail.

The agenda is up for the Langford Council meeting on Monday night. It’s sizeable and, as is their custom, City Hall staff have broken it down into three parts: part 1, part 2, and part 3. The rotating parts of the agenda are below:

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