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Sooke is Selling!
3.125x1.2” Dimock
Classifieds 17 • 75¢
2013 Sooke Home Sales: 304 2014 Sooke Home Sales: 216
32 pages in two sections
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Black Press C O M M U N I T Y
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Silver Spray wants plans to be “flexible” Developer seeks changes to heights and buildings Pirjo Raits
Sooke News Mirror
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The last days of summer
Tom Kral swimming with fish at the Sooke Potholes on the last day of summer. Students are back in school and drivers are encouraged to slow down and watch their speed in school zones.
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Changes are happening again at Silver Spray. Developer Michael Thornton came before District of Sooke council on September 15 requesting a change to the development permit at SookePoint. In 2013, council approved a development permit for the building of 95 private residence club cottages, along with a club, pavilion for commercial and recreation use as well as parking area and a wastewater treatment plant. This was for phase one of the development in East Sooke at Possession Point. Thornton came before council looking for some “flexibility” which would allow him to replace eight three-story cottage buildings with one to five buildings between five and seven-stories high. He also applied for a second development permit to build one of five buildings, also referred to by the applicant as “yacht suites” in place of eight cottage buildings. These buildings would be 20 metres high with density bonusing. District CAO Gord Howie, in looking over the application, had some questions in regard to the incompleteness of the application. Howie stated in the staff report that it was incomplete because the elevation plans for the buildings have not been approved by an architect, no landscape plans were submitted and there was lack of information on parking and lack of information on the number and height of the proposed buildings. Thornton said he didn’t know how many units would be built and said there was no legal requirement to use a professional architect. “The only area missing is the number of buildings and I don’t know what the market will take,” he said. “I don’t want the expectation that I will
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