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Duncan Mayor Michelle Staples is inviting people to participate in Small Town. Big Conversations, a new engagement platform that will serve as an online hub for the city’s public engagement efforts. (Citizen file photo)

Duncan launches new public engagement platform

City invites input into local planning

  • Mar 20, 2023

 

WestUrban Developments has received a development permit from the City of Duncan to build two five-storey residential buildings on Ypres Street. (WestUrban Developments)

Revised Ypres Street residental development gets green light from Duncan council

Project will see two five-storey buildings with 91 units

 

Land being cleared for the modular home park on the Trans Canada Highway. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Transportation ministry denies change to modular home development access

Trans Canada Highway option will not be used instead of Henry Road west

 

North Cowichan Coun. Bruce Findlay’s motion for a 24-month amnesty on the municipality’s new urban-containment boundary was defeated 4-3 at the council meeting on Feb. 1 (Citizen file photo)

Motion for amnesty period on new urban containment boundary in N. Cowichan fails

Council votes 4-3 against Coun. Bruce Findlay’s motion

North Cowichan Coun. Bruce Findlay’s motion for a 24-month amnesty on the municipality’s new urban-containment boundary was defeated 4-3 at the council meeting on Feb. 1 (Citizen file photo)
North Cowichan Mayor Rob Douglas was finally successful in his efforts to have council direct hime to write a letter to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure asking it to reconsider its decision not to make the Trans-Canada Highway the primary access point to Morgan Maples modular housing development in Chemainus. (Citizen file photo)

North Cowichan will try to intervene on issue of access to controversial development

Municipality will send letter to MoTI on having main access to Morgan Maples off TCH

North Cowichan Mayor Rob Douglas was finally successful in his efforts to have council direct hime to write a letter to the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure asking it to reconsider its decision not to make the Trans-Canada Highway the primary access point to Morgan Maples modular housing development in Chemainus. (Citizen file photo)
North Cowichan’s council has turned down a request to ask the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to reconsider its decision not to have the Trans Canada Highway as the primary access point to a new modular-home development in Chemainus. (Citizen file photo)

Councillors decline to consider request from Chemainus residents on development access

Henry Road residents concerned about increased traffic on their road

North Cowichan’s council has turned down a request to ask the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure to reconsider its decision not to have the Trans Canada Highway as the primary access point to a new modular-home development in Chemainus. (Citizen file photo)
The researchers studied two Australian cities and gathered data from the last 20 years. (Photo: Paulo Ramos/UBC Faculty of Forestry)

Young people the ‘missing middle’ of park planning, development: B.C. study

Sara Barron and Emily Rugel created a way to evaluate parks based on order, seclusion and diversity

The researchers studied two Australian cities and gathered data from the last 20 years. (Photo: Paulo Ramos/UBC Faculty of Forestry)
Land owners Janice and Ken Hiles have been trying since 2018 to donate Little Beach on the Cowichan River to the CVRD as parkland, but bureaucratic red tape has delayed the land transfer for years. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Bureaucratic quagmire stalling gift of Vancouver Island riverfront property

Red tape ties up Little Beach land donation on the Cowichan River for almost 5 years

Land owners Janice and Ken Hiles have been trying since 2018 to donate Little Beach on the Cowichan River to the CVRD as parkland, but bureaucratic red tape has delayed the land transfer for years. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
Land owners Janice and Ken Hiles have been trying since 2018 to donate Little Beach on the Cowichan River to the CVRD as parkland, but bureaucratic red tape has delayed the land transfer for years. (Robert Barron/Citizen)

Red tape ties up Little Beach land donation on the Cowichan River for almost 5 years

Government bureaucracy blamed

Land owners Janice and Ken Hiles have been trying since 2018 to donate Little Beach on the Cowichan River to the CVRD as parkland, but bureaucratic red tape has delayed the land transfer for years. (Robert Barron/Citizen)
Josh Handysides, CAO of the Malahat Nation, is defending two development projects proposed by the Malahat Investment Corporation for Bamberton after two citizen groups raised environmental concerns. (Citizen file photo)

Two projects proposed in Bamberton raise environmental concerns

Both proposals are from the Malahat Investment Corporation

Josh Handysides, CAO of the Malahat Nation, is defending two development projects proposed by the Malahat Investment Corporation for Bamberton after two citizen groups raised environmental concerns. (Citizen file photo)
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, front right, and Squamish Nation councillor Khelsilem arrive for an announcement and groundbreaking at the First Nation’s Senakw housing development site in Vancouver on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. A Vancouver residents association has launched a legal bid to quash the services agreement between the city and the Squamish Nation relating to the largest Indigenous-led housing and retail development in Canadian history. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Lawsuit targets largest Indigenous-led housing and retail development in B.C. history

Group argues services deal for Squamish Nation’s Senakw project in Vancouver unlawfully approved

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, front right, and Squamish Nation councillor Khelsilem arrive for an announcement and groundbreaking at the First Nation’s Senakw housing development site in Vancouver on Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2022. A Vancouver residents association has launched a legal bid to quash the services agreement between the city and the Squamish Nation relating to the largest Indigenous-led housing and retail development in Canadian history. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The City of Duncan has sent a proposal for a six-storey, 96-unit rental residential development on Ypres Street for further review. (Courtesy of City of Duncan)

City of Duncan wants further review of proposed 6-storey rental project

Neighbours and council members take issue with many aspects of Ypres Street project

The City of Duncan has sent a proposal for a six-storey, 96-unit rental residential development on Ypres Street for further review. (Courtesy of City of Duncan)
The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from property developer Concord Pacific Acquisitions, ending a long-running legal dispute over the billion-dollar development of one of Vancouver’s last parcels of waterfront land. British Columbia’s provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld

Canada’s high court won’t hear dispute over $1B Vancouver waterfront development

Dispute centred on one of Vancouver’s last parcels of waterfront land

The Supreme Court of Canada has refused to hear an appeal from property developer Concord Pacific Acquisitions, ending a long-running legal dispute over the billion-dollar development of one of Vancouver’s last parcels of waterfront land. British Columbia’s provincial flag flies on a flag pole in Ottawa, Friday July 3, 2020. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Adrian Wyld
Brown areas are within a five-minute walk of one of the planned local SkyTrain stations. Areas in tan are within a 10-minute walk. (Langley City OCP)

Most land on Langley City SkyTrain route already bought by developers: realtor

Langley City land assemblages are ready to be redeveloped over the next few years

Brown areas are within a five-minute walk of one of the planned local SkyTrain stations. Areas in tan are within a 10-minute walk. (Langley City OCP)
The City of Victoria plans to phase in a movement to a zero-carbon requirement on new buildings by 2025. (City of Victoria )

Carbon dating: Victoria mandates zero carbon standard for new construction by 2025

Provincial requirement for new construction likely to take effect in 2030

The City of Victoria plans to phase in a movement to a zero-carbon requirement on new buildings by 2025. (City of Victoria )
Some residents are terminating their leases early and without penalty. (Sarah Simpson/Citizen)

UPDATED: Developer hopes to welcome tenants back when Cowichan apartment building defects fixed

Municipality points the finger at developer’s engineers

Some residents are terminating their leases early and without penalty. (Sarah Simpson/Citizen)
The UBCO campus tower is still planned for 46 storeys. (UBCO graphic)

Make way: 46-storey campus housing tower gets green light in Kelowna

Council passed the newly created CD28 zone making way for the tower

The UBCO campus tower is still planned for 46 storeys. (UBCO graphic)
Presenter Dr. Richard Guthrie reveals some of the findings of a study on Saltair slope stability. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Saltair study guides development in areas that may be subjected to natural hazards

Abundant landslide activity in the past factoring into future decisions

Presenter Dr. Richard Guthrie reveals some of the findings of a study on Saltair slope stability. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Presenter Dr. Richard Guthrie reveals some of the findings of a study on Saltair slope stability. (Photo by Don Bodger)

Saltair study guides development in areas that may be subjected to natural hazards

Abundant landslide activity in the past factoring into future decisions

Presenter Dr. Richard Guthrie reveals some of the findings of a study on Saltair slope stability. (Photo by Don Bodger)
Lake Cowichan Physiotherapy has received approval for a new building to be constructed at 88 Lake Cowichan Rd. (Developer’s rendering)

Lake Cowichan Physiotherapy Clinic to expand after height variance granted

Clinicians hope to be ready for more patients early next year

Lake Cowichan Physiotherapy has received approval for a new building to be constructed at 88 Lake Cowichan Rd. (Developer’s rendering)