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Wednesday, May 27, 2015
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Sooke council stands with JdF director Issue is access to safe, clean drinking water
living in the JdFEA the opportunity to access safe, clean drinking water. “If you do this, it is not a small thing and if the CRD continues to push, we will go to arbitration,” said Hicks. Hicks said the District of Sooke will get pressure from the CRD and he hoped they would stand strong with the JdFEA. Every municipality in the CRD votes on the RSS and the RSS willnot pass if there is one dissenting vote. Hicks stated earlier that if the RSS was passed he would challenge it in court. He said the JDFEA was being discriminated against as he could not even vote on an issue which affected households in the Juan de Fuca. Environmentalist Vicky Husband, along with others, spoke at the CRD Committee of the Whole meeting in April and stated that piped water should not be extended and that growth should be kept compact. This included the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. The RSS will come before the CRD Board on Wednesday, May 27.
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District of Sooke council stood by Juan de Fuca Electoral Area Director Mike Hicks in his stance against the Capital Regional District’s Regional Sustainability Strategy (RSS). The CRD is currently intending to replace the Octavian Lacatusu photos Regional Growth Strategy with the RSS and in the document it states Whiffin Spit had a little guest last week - well, not too little anyway - he’s an “elephant” seal - and no, he’s not that municipalities can dead, or sick. He is in a process called “molting” - in which he sheds his skin for a whole new set. The catastophic extend water to every molt can take between 25 and 28 days. The fur sheds in patches with the epidermal skin attached revealing a corner of their boundaries, if they choose to, new dark gray fur underneath ready for immediate use. And, as it happens, the good ol’ Spit is his favourite spot. He’s also originally from California and is one year old, said Hicks. What is at issue is so he’s a young pup. Everyone passing by at the Spit is encouraged to take a look at this unique (and unfortunately, endangered) that the JdFEA is not marine animal, however visitors are required to respectfully remain behind the caution tape during his stay here. allowed the same privilege, and it does not get a vote. The JdFEA can extend water into their Rural Containment Areas but not beyond. Hicks said the RSS will used to control density in the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area. Some are also calling for the elimination of the settlement areas of East Sooke and Otter Point. In other words, they are using water to control density. “We want to plead with our in bigCanada sister to #1 Real Estate Company stand up for her neighfor Sales last 4 Consecutive Years bours,” said Hicks. “We used to be one and we
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