Temporary Use Permit (TUP16-0003) – 3010 Amy Road (Staff Report)

Notice of Intention to Consider Issuance of a Temporary Use Permit

NOTICE is hereby given that the City of Langford will consider issuance of a TEMPORARY USE PERMIT in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Tuesday, 6 September 2016, at 5:30 pm.

• File
  Temporary Use Permit No. TUP16-0003

• Purpose
  The purpose of the proposed Temporary Use Permit is to allow all of the uses of the BP3 (Business Park 3 – Amy Road) zone;

• Applicant
  City of Langford

• Location
  The land that is the subject of TEMPORARY USE PERMIT NO. TUP16-0003 is 3010 Amy Rd.

COPIES of the complete proposed TEMPORARY USE PERMIT and other related material may be viewed during normal working hours, 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 22 August 2016 to Tuesday, 6 September 2016 , inclusive, at the Langford City Hall, Second Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8. Please contact the Planning Department with any questions on this Temporary Use Permit.

Jim Bowden
Administrator
2016-08-23

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Supplementary Content Appearing on Pages 125–126

Excerpt: Goldstream News Gazette — OPINE (Wednesday, August 31, 2016)

Market test needed for co
Re: Regional commuter rail system could pay for itself (Letters, Aug. 10)

Eric Neilion's verbose letter has three notable points. The E&N track only serves a limited market, primarily CFB Esquimalt and associated dockyards, as Victoria eliminated tracks on the Johnson Street Bridge and commuters don't want a long walk or another route transfer. It is worthwhile if the cost is low, but it seems late now to help the McKenzie-interchange.

Neilson advocates user pay, a very good principle. But in competition with subsidized roads, the only attraction might be higher speed, which saves the one scarce resource — individual human time. It is, however, pie-in-the-sky at this point given the timing and the lack of a market test before Victoria abandoned the E&N on the new bridge.

What has been needed for decades is a modest market test of commuter rail using the E&N trackage. Recall that harbour ferries here were a dismal failure, but the airport leg of the Skytrain in Vancouver has been quite successful — all surprises. Without a test, advocates of rail transit are just theorizing.

Unfortunately Neilson throws in a gratuitous xenophobic scheme to force local manufacturing, a hypocritical approach given the trade of manufacturers here, and the amount of money coming here from taxpayers of B.C., tourists, and retirees. Manufacturers have to perform, government meddling instead results in failures like management of the E&N trackage.

Gazette file photo
The former E&N Railway station in Langford has been touted in the past as a potential stop or terminus of a commuter rail system to downtown Victoria.

Keith Sketchley
Saanich

(The Goldstream News Gazette letter-to-the-editor instructions and contact information follow in the original clipping.)

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