Official Community Plan Review

Move city hall to Keating Business Park and develop the land for Seniors Housing and Affordable Housing

Moving city hall and police services to Keating Business Park would be a great first step to revitalizing Keating Business Park and the operations more in line with the activities in the Business Park. Meanwhile, the current city hall and surrounding land isn't contributing much to the vibrancy of Saanichton.

Full lit intersection at Mt. Newton and East Saanich Rd. Too many cars and not enough people knowing or following proper 4 way procedure.

Boat Ramp

with the closing of the Tsartlip boat ramp there is nowhere to launch , Central Saanich could work with North Saanich to maybe provide something at Pat Bay ???

Look for and pursue opportunities to ensure faming continues

With the transfer of the 78-hectare Woodwynn Farms property to First Nations (a positive move), opportunities to increase farm land should be identified, pursued. and the current urban containment areas respected. A mandate of the CRD is to add 5000 hectares of farm land to our area, but there has been no visible demonstration that efforts have been made. The demand for small properties that allow farming has increased dramatically in recent years and many young families have to leave our area to follow their chosen paths. As a result, our farmer population is aging rapidly and we may have lost a the next generation.

Community Bike Day

As a way of promoting biking safety and education around biking on CS roads, having an official community biking day where motorists and cyclists learn better how to share the road and how to be safe. This would preferably take place when more infrastructure is in place, but could happen anytime. Partners could be CS Police and schools. Educational signage could be in place to promote awareness among passing motorists, and speed readers could be in place in high speeding areas along with signage to promote awareness of how speeding endangers lives of cyclists/pedestrians. Schools could be engaged as a way of promoting awareness among kids. Family fun rides with an easy route for kids to ride could also be a way to engage families. Australia has enacted a law where cyclists must be given a metre of space between cyclist and car - a concept that could be promoted in CS as well. Bike etiquette training was mentioned in the Active Transportation study and could be incorporated into this initiative.