Notice of Public Hearing - Proposed Bylaw Nos. 1852 & 1853 (1000 Citation Rd & 2691 Secretariat Way)

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Second bat with rabies found at local elementary school

For the second time this month a bat with rabies has been found on elementary school grounds in Greater Victoria.

Island Health has confirmed the latest bat, which was deceased at the time it was found at Frank Hobbs Elementary School in Saanich, tested positive for rabies.

Cheryl Bloxham, spokesperson for Island Health, noted Island Health isn’t aware of anyone who came into direct, unprotected contact with the bat. However, if anyone did come into contact with the dead bat, they are being asked to call the Island Health Communicable Disease program immediately at 1-866-665-6626.

Island Health is also asking parents to remind children that they should never interact directly with or disturb wildlife, including bats. Children should not touch, poke or pick up any bat they may come across.

Earlier this month, a bat found at Keating Elementary School in Central Saanich also tested positive for rabies. According to a letter sent out to parents from Island Health, a number of people who may have come in direct contact with the bat were assessed. Those found to be at risk of exposure were given a preventative vaccine.

Island Health’s medical health officer Dee Hoyana says among the large number of people reporting bat exposures this summer, a high number of those could have been prevented if people had simply avoided touching the bat.

She recommends wearing protective layers, especially head protection, if you go out at night or around dusk when bats are out, also staying in better lit and open areas.

Only 0.5 per cent of bats in the province are thought to be infected with rabies. In B.C. 13 per cent of the bats submitted for testing have been found positive for rabies, the number may seem high but most bats that are submitted for testing usually are already displaying signs of illness or unusual behaviour.

In July, a B.C. man died from rabies after coming into contact with the bat six weeks earlier. His infection is the first case of human rabies in the province since 2003 and one of only 24 known cases in Canada since the 1920s – the most recent in Ontario in 2012 and Alberta in 2007.

• With files from Nina Grossman
  Goldstream News Gazette
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Cans and bottles destined for Cops for Cancer fundraiser stolen from Sooke RCMP Detachment

Cans and bottles that had been collected to raise funds for the Cops for Cancer ride were stolen from the Sooke RCMP detachment on Thursday.

Sooke RCMP said the detachment has collected cans and bottles for the Canadian Cancer Society Cops for Cancer Tour de Rock ride in the past, and continued to do so this year. Funds generated go towards the Canadian Cancer Society.

Police said on Sept. 19, volunteers went to the Sooke RCMP detachment to begin sorting cans when they realized eight large, clear plastic bags of cans were missing from the fenced compound.

“We’ve reviewed the video footage from the area in an effort to try and identify a suspect,” said Operations NCO Sgt. Clayton Wiebe of the Sooke RCMP. “The money from these bottles and cans were going to a cause that we all here have strong feelings for. Yeah, I’d say we’re pretty upset by this theft.”

Sooke RCMP is requesting anyone with information about the incident to contact the detachment at 250-642-5241.

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Additional Notices of Public Hearing (extracted from pages)

NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING — Bylaw No. 1859 (3030 Glennan Rd)

The City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1859. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 7 October 2019, at 5:30 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal:

The purpose of Bylaw No. 1859 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the text of the R2 (One- and Two-Family Residential) Zone for the lakefront property located at 3030 Glennan Rd to remove the requirement to exclude the SPEA from the calculation of minimum lot size on a lake-front lot and to allow for the subdivision of a 550 m2 lot immediately behind the lake-front lot.

Applicant: Margaret Wheldon

Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1859 is 3030 Glennan Rd as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaw may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 23 September 2019 to Monday, 7 October 2019, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8.

Please contact David Sametz in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING — Bylaw Nos. 1852 & 1853 (repeated)

The City of Langford has received an application to amend the Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1200 and the Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw Nos. 1852 and 1853. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaws will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaws at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 7 October 2019, at 5:30 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal:

The purpose of Bylaw No. 1852 is to amend the Official Community Plan Bylaw No. 1200 by amending the designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1852 from the Neighbourhood designation and adding to the Mixed Use Employment Centre designation.

The purpose of Bylaw No. 1853 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1853 from R2 (One- and Two-Family Residential) Zone and adding to the RM2A (Attached Housing) Zone to allow the developments of approximately 12 townhouse units at 1000 Citation Rd and 76 apartments at 2691 Secretariat Way.

Applicant: Jared Steingard, Westbrook Consulting

Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw Nos. 1852 and 1853 is 1000 Citation Rd and 2691 Secretariat Way as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaws and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaws may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 23 September 2019 to Monday, 7 October 2019, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8.

Please contact Julia Buckingham in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on these Bylaws.

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING — Bylaw No. 1843 (950 Isabell Ave)

The City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1843. All persons who believe that their interest in property is affected by the proposed Bylaw will be afforded an opportunity to be heard or to present written submissions respecting matters contained in the Bylaw at a Public Hearing to be held in the CITY OF LANGFORD COUNCIL CHAMBERS, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, on Monday, 7 October 2019, at 5:30 pm. Please be advised that no representations may be received by Council after the close of the Public Hearing and any submissions made to Council, whether orally or in writing, will form part of a public record.

Proposal:

The purpose of Bylaw No. 1843 is to amend the City of Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by amending the zoning designation of the land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1843 from R2 (One- and Two-Family Residential) Zone and adding to the RS3 (Residential Small Lot 3) Zone to allow for the subdivision of 5 small lot one family homes.

Applicant: Mohammed Khataw

Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1843 is 950 Isabell Ave as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete proposed Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the Bylaw may be viewed from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm, Monday to Friday (holidays excluded), from Monday, 23 September 2019 to Monday, 7 October 2019, inclusive, at Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8.

Please contact Lauren Morhart in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 with any questions on this Bylaw.

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services

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Other Notices

Opinion: Governments lost in a fog over how to deal with latest nicotine product

Big tobacco has found its saviour, and the road to fattening future profit lines is no longer shrouded in smoke, but cloaked in vapour.

Only the lobbyists for an industry that has killed millions of people around the world could push a new poison with this kind of pitch. “Hey, science may eventually prove that e-cigarettes are harmful, but they’re not as bad for you as smoking.”

If you’re going to push a novel approach to smoking, it’s pure genius to come up with a concept where the contaminated cloud you’re inhaling disappears in the time it takes to exhale. And there’s no harm, no foul to those nasty complaints from bystanders if the evidence disappears in the blink of an eye, right?

If this creates a whole new audience of smokers, err, vapers who get hooked in their teens or younger, so what? The tobacco conglomerates could care less as long as the money piles up. As long as governments – those people we elect to protect us – look the other way (wink, wink), let the good times roll. You can bet the nicotine industry is already stockpiling freighters full of cash from their new cash cow to cover the cost of lawsuits sure to follow. Just a slice of the price of doing business, simply consumer collateral damage until the powers that we plug into the mounting medical evidence that e-cigarettes are actually very, very bad for you.

What makes that so hard to digest is that we’ve all seen this movie before. Doing nothing as another health crisis unfolds while we’re still burying loved ones lost to lung cancer reads like another classic case of self-inflicted wounds.

In the meantime, my own unscientific survey based on the limited powers of my own observations indicates that the number of teens who vape is exploding. It’s attracting a peach-fuzzed pubescent clientele with the tried and true method of waving candy in front of a baby. Science and common sense says the brain doesn’t fully mature until you hit the mid-20s, so pitching something as addictive as nicotine through an assortment of flavours you would find in a Slurpee machine should scare the hell out of all of us.

Before we drown in that helpless feeling of here we go again because there’s nothing we can do, think about what we can accomplish with one stroke of the parliamentary pen.

As it stands now, they only need a business license to sell tobacco or vaping products. Charging a hefty fee seems like a pretty good place to start. Stop the sale of flavoured products and put in place strict controls and fines for those who peddle these products.

San Francisco banned the sale of e-cigarettes in June, and New York State just passed a law banning flavoured nicotine products. It’s time to pressure our politicians into following the same path as our neighbours to the south because children are dying while we discuss and delay.

Rick Stiebel is a semi-retired local journalist.
Goldstream News Gazette
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NOTICE — Storage Auction

Notice is here by given that on October 8, 2019 West Shore U-Lock Mini Storage Ltd. 1621 Island Highway, Victoria BC will sell the contents of the lockers listed below if the monies owed are not paid and contents removed from the premises:

• Patrick MacPhail 2177A
• Toni Redford 2529L

West Shore U-Lock Mini Storage will list, at ONLINE public auction, the property heretofore stored at the above noted space by the above noted occupant, to the highest bidder.

Notice is hereby given that the ONLINE Auction is being held on October 8, 2019 starting at 1 pm and ending on October 10, 2019 on or after 1 pm at www.ibid4storage.com

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Open House — Draft Streets Bylaw (View Royal)

• Date: Monday, October 7, 2019
• Time: 5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.
• Location: View Royal Town Hall, 45 View Royal Avenue

Please join us for an Open House to learn more about the draft Streets Bylaw for the Town of View Royal. Light refreshments will be served.

For more information:
Phone: 250-479-6800
Email: info@viewroyal.ca

Or, to see a copy of the draft Streets Bylaw, go to our website and click on the Draft Streets Bylaw Open House item under “What’s New” @ www.viewroyal.ca.