Peninsula News Review, August 14, 2013

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Climbers are in Central Saanich this week for the IFSC World Youth Climbing Championships, page 12

The Town of Sidney’s Seaside Sculpture Walk is featured this today’s edition, pages 8 & 9

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Consultant report on housing growth in North Saanich both expected and lamented Steven Heywood News staff

A delay in the public debate over North Saanich’s latest housing report is probably a good thing, say both supporters and opponents of the report’s findings. That could be the last thing either side agrees upon. CTQ Consultants of Kelowna submitted a final draft of the housing report to District council back in June. Staff shortages have contributed to the time it has taken to prepare an in-house report on the document, but the municipality had set Aug. 13 to begin public debate. That, however, has been moved to Sept. 9. “I’m pleased with it,” said Councillor Ted Daly, who along with his counterparts Connie McBride, Craig Mearns and Dunstan Browne, have been pushing for more housing growth in the community. “It came as no surprise to me when I reviewed it in June,” Daly continued. While he said there has been a delay in a public account of the report, he’s supportive of moving a meeting on it to September. “To me, the sooner the better, but it is a big issue in the community and it makes sense to get most of council at a meeting on it.” Geoff Orr, president of the North Saanich Residents Association, says moving the meeting to September gives interested parties more time to prepare their input into the report. Concerned people, he said, had thought the report would come up at council’s planned Aug. 19 meeting. Some were scrambling a bit to prepare information for a meeting a week prior to that. “I figure (the report) will spark a lot of talk and a lot of debate,” Orr said. “It has been fine to talk theories (about housing in the community), but now I will be interested to see how council uses this to define (the District’s) rate of growth. Council, I think, will have to decide what they want to bite off.” Please see: New urban containment boundaries, page 3

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Players go head to head in a game of soccer during the Coast Salish Games at Centennial Park on Wednesday, Aug. 8. The games ran last week and included soccer, ball hockey, track, basketball and canoe pulling.

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