Official Community Plan Amendment BYLAW No: 3387; and Date: Monday, June 14, 2010
Re: OPEN HOUSE -- CVRD Eco-Depot Place: Land straddling Cameron Taggart near Shawnigan Lake Road; Time: 10:00am to 2:00pm Is eco-depot a FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE decision?
Re: NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Zoning Amendment BYLAW No. 3388
Applicable to Electoral Area A - Mill Bay/Malahat
(with potential impact to Cowichan Valley Regional District and
Vancouver Island)
Place: Kerry Park Recreation Centre (McLean Room)
1035 Shawnigan Mill Bay Road, Mill Bay
Time: 7:00pm
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010;
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Why is Area-A - Mill Bay/Malahat OCP being reviewed suddenly?
"It was a project for just Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill for quite a while and now, since last summer, the regional board has asked us to include Mill Bay/Malahat"
Courtesy: Cowichan News Leader Pictorial Page 5; Mike D'Amour article "Ideas wanted for south end's future"; Comment from: Katy Tompkins (CVRD)
How does this fit in with the south end directors' plans for "Urbanization"?
The COMMUNITY has spoken -- We don't need a POOL at $25 Million !!!
You answered our call for DEMOCRACY; thank you.
39% of eligible voters went to the polls and 63% of them were opposed to CVRD borrowing!
1742 - Yes; and 2951 - No
Courtesy: CVRD website; http://cvrd.bc.ca/documents/Elections%20&%20Referenda/Declaration%20of%20Results.PDF
Do you enjoy the SAANICH INLET, a fjord on Vancouver Island in British Columbia ?
Are you prepared for your quality of life to be changed forever...?
...and.... pay THEM to take it?
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No one knows! |
It will get much worse! | Can you afford? |
Is this what the community has requested?
Is this POOL referendum their trial balloon?
In these troubled economic times, the directors of the three electoral Areas-Shawnigan Lake (Ken Cossey), Cobble Hill (Gerry Giles)
and Mill Bay/Malahat (Brian Harrison) are bent on “URBANIZING” our RURAL South Cowichan electoral areas.
(Courtesy: The Mill Bay Messenger issue #195, November 2009)
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The grand plan (?):
“Municipal status is the best way to plan the large-scale development we will experience (potentially over 11,000 new dwellings.) The CVRD system does not provide an appropriate way to manage the changes and challenges Mill Bay will face.”
(Courtesy: CVRD sponsored South Cowichan Services and Governance Study 2009 Technical Report by Sussex Consultants Ltd., page 68 that were published in June this year.) |
Preserve our RURAL quality of life in South Cowichan.
In case you missed our recent letter (The Citizen)
Link: http://www2.canada.com/cowichanvalleycitizen/news/story.html?id=871a1ad6-9391-4e16-92e5-a1a46b7db589
Free bi-weekly newspapers went "missing" because
of this article!
Thousands not part of the process
Paul Devoe, The Citizen: Tuesday, February 2, 2010 Dear Editor: Re: Incorporation a public idea; David Towner (Chair), South Cowichan Governance and Services Study Committee; Publish date: Wednesday, Jan. 20. It was good of Mr. Towner to trace the chronology of events leading to phase two of incorporation. A close scrutiny of his account reveals forces behind this exercise in the name of public good and idea. Is this the same group that attempted to impose a pool at Kerry Park through the south end referendum not too long ago? According to his account, the Mill Bay Incorporation Study Committee met twice in 2007 to inform the public. It is ironic that at both times that there were only 40-plus attendees. Did they have the very same audience both times? Where did they meet? Do 40 in attendance mean that all those people (in attendance) were in favour of "incorporation exercise" as proposed? What was really proposed in these meetings? Is that a marketing ploy to split this exercise into multiple phases? Why did the Mill Bay Community League choose to endorse this particular group? Who was the chair of the community league back then in 2007? Is it ironic among other things that both CVRD directors (Mike Walker and Brian Harrison) belong to the same Mill Bay Community League; the incorporation program continues in spite of the changing of the guard after 2008 municipal elections; and the Mill Bay Incorporation Study Committee is co-chaired by David Towner (himself; ex Director -- Shawnigan Lake) and Roger Burgess (present Alternate Director for Mill Bay/Malahat with director Brian Harrison and also the former APC chair under director Mike Walker; Area A). These 40-plus attendees pursuing the incorporation exercises (who intend to make South Cowichan into a municipality) hardly represent the people of Mill Bay/Malahat, Shawnigan Lake and Cobble Hill -- makes the concept of calling it a grass-roots community based initiative hard to digest. Thousands of South Cowichan citizens are not adequately represented here. This incorporation exercise quite likely will meet the same fate as the recently concluded Kerry Park swimming pool referendum. Given the tax implications, the current economic challenges and responsibilities associated with being a municipality, we don't see a bright future for this exercise. And, by the way, please note: Those 40 in attendance (2007 Mill Bay Incorporation Committee Study presentation meetings at the Mill Bay Community League) include the significant David Towner, Mike Walker, Mark Wyatt, Brian Harrison, Ross Tennant and then insignificant Balu Tatachari. No hidden agendas, fellow citizens; just for the good of our community!
Friends of Saanich Inlet
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