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Friday, January 16, 2015
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Westside sewer plan needs input Second town hall-style information session on West Shore goes next week in Langford Mike Davies News Gazette staff
supports “projects of national, regional and local significance that promote growth, job creation and productivity.” The road would include bike lanes along its length, as well as street lighting and sidewalks for the urban areas.
After all the uproar and controversy about what’s supposed to be happening with sewage treatment in the Capital Region, the public is finally getting a say. Following up on Wednesday’s open house in Colwood hosted by the Westside Wastewater Treatment and Resource Recovery Committee – also known as Westside Solutions – Langford will host the next town hall-style meeting next Tuesday (Jan. 20). Westside Solutions, which includes Langford, Colwood, View Royal, Esquimalt and the Songhees Nation, was formed last fall following the failure of the Seaterra program to secure a regional treatment plant site. After receiving public input, it will make recommendations to the CRD on how to move forward to achieve the government -mandated sewage treatment. Colwood had already started down the road to creating its own treatment system for current and future sewage system users. But in October the CRD’s Core Area Liquid Waste Management Committee granted all municipalities the right to develop alternative options for wastewater treatment and resource recovery.
PLEASE SEE: Parkway extension, Page A8
PLEASE SEE: Online survey, Page A4
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More than just a fairy story Fairies fawn over character Nick Bottom, who has been given the head of a donkey by fellow fairy Puck, in this adaptation of a scene from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, the upcoming production from Belmont secondary’s Prometheus Players. The play runs Jan. 21, 22 and 23 in the drama space at the school. See story page A18.
Next step taken on Parkway extension Langford seeks grant for $24M road project Mike Davies News Gazette Staff
The City of Langford’s plan to join Sooke Road to the Trans
Canada Highway with a bypass through the western edge of the city is one step closer, with the filing of a recent grant application. The $24-million plan calls for Westshore Parkway north of the railroad tracks to be extended south over the tracks, connecting it to Langford Parkway at a roundabout, then
extending it further south to meet Sooke Road at Awsworth Road. The extension would be built in four simultaneouslyconstructed sections. The city is seeking two-thirds of the funding for the project from the New Building Canada Infrastructure Fund. According to Infrastructure Canada, which operates the fund, it
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