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Area residents worry for future of Langford land Green corridor between Hwy. 1 and neighbouring homes could be in jeopardy: residents’ group Kyle Wells News staff
With four lots in Langford surrounding the Trans-Canada Highway now in private hands, nearby residents are worried about what might come next. Tricia Markle, who grew up in Langford and whose mother still lives on Mill Hill, is part of a group seeking to prevent development on the land, which was recently sold by the province as part of its dissolution of the Provincial Capital Commission. Markle, a graduate student in Minnesota studying conservation biology, has a personal connection to the property. “It’s actually the forest I grew up on. I spent a lot of time playing back there and it actually led to me taking a career in biology,” she said. The four parcels range in size from 2.75 to about 33 hectares and had been listed for sale at between $400,000 and $1.3 million. Three are near the Millstream Road overpass and the fourth is across the highway from West Shore Parkway. When Markle heard about the province putting up the land for sale, she began rallying neighbours and other local residents to work toward preventing heavy development on these properties. “(The land) to the best of everybody’s knowledge was supposed to be maintained as a green corridor forever. So it came as a big shock,” she said. “There was a lot of interest in trying to preserve it as much as we could to maintain the integrity of that corridor.” The objections to developing the land are threefold. The first is the aesthetic beauty of the area, with forest on either side of the Trans-Canada Highway and many properties backing in to wilderness. Please see: Tree protection in corridor, Page A7
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This little piggy Metchosin farmer Kit Warren cuddles with one of his two-day old Duroc Berkshire Yorkshire piglets at Shadow Mountain Farm. New piglets arrive every three months and are sold to families who raise the pigs for meat and use their manure for compost for their gardens.
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