Public Hearing / Bylaw No. 1883 - Langford Zoning Bylaw, Amendment No. 581 (2627 Sooke Rd)

BYLAW NO. 1883

A BYLAW TO AMEND BYLAW NO. 300, “LANGFORD ZONING BYLAW, 1999"

The Council of the City of Langford, in open meeting assembled, hereby enacts as follows:

A. Langford Zoning Bylaw No. 300, 1999 is amended as follows:

1. By deleting from the R2 (ONE- AND TWO-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL) Zone and adding to C9 (COMMUNITY TOWN CENTRE PEDESTRIAN 9) Zone the property legally described as LOT 1 SECTION 83 ESQUIMALT DISTRICT PLAN 21459, PID No. 003-395-812 (2627 Sooke Rd) in the portions as shown shaded on Plan No. 1 attached to and forming part of this Bylaw.

2. By adding the following to Table 1 of Schedule AD:

Table 1 — Schedule AD (added row)

Bylaw Citation and Readings

B. This Bylaw may be cited for all purposes as “Langford Zoning Bylaw, Amendment No. 581, (2627 Sooke Rd), Bylaw No. 1883, 2020".

READ A FIRST TIME this 18th day of February, 2020.

PUBLIC HEARING held this day of, 2020.

READ A SECOND TIME this day of, 2020.

READ A THIRD TIME this day of, 2020.

APPROVED BY THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTATION THIS day of , 2020.

ADOPTED this of, 2020.

MAYOR

(Certified Correct)
CORPORATE OFFICER

Schedule A

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING

The City of Langford has received an application to amend Zoning Bylaw No. 300 by means of proposed Bylaw No. 1883. 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 an electronically held Public Hearing. 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.

• Meeting Date: Monday, 29 June 2020
• Meeting Time: 5:30 pm
• Meeting Place: City Hall Council Chambers, Third Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue
• Subject Property: 2627 Sooke Rd
• File: Z19-0023
• Bylaw Number: 1883

Official Community Plan

• Current: Neighbourhood Centre
• Proposed: No Change

Zoning

• Current: R2 (One- and Two-Family Residential)
• Proposed: C9 (Community Town Centre Pedestrian 9)

Proposal
To permit a 90-unit apartment building with one commercial unit along Sooke Rd.

PLEASE NOTE: This meeting will be held electronically, and not in-person. Information about how to connect to this meeting by phone may be found on the City’s Website: www.cityoflangford.ca

COPIES of the complete Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the bylaw may be viewed online at: www.langford.ca, or made available upon request by emailing to planning@langford.ca or in writing to Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8 for the duration of the pandemic emergency. Please contact Robert Dykstra in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 or by email at rdykstra@langford.ca with any questions on this bylaw.

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services

Applicant: Danny Jadresko, Woodsmere Holdings Corp.
Location: The land that is the subject of Bylaw No. 1883 is 2627 Sooke Rd as shown shaded on the plan.

COPIES of the complete Bylaw and other material that the Council may consider in relation to the bylaw may be viewed online at: www.langford.ca, or made available upon request by emailing to planning@langford.ca or in writing to Langford City Hall, 2nd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, Langford, BC, V9B 2X8 for the duration of the pandemic emergency. Please contact Robert Dykstra in the Planning Department at 250-478-7882 or by email at rdykstra@langford.ca with any questions on this bylaw.

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services

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Supplementary Notices and Articles (from pages 10–11)

Goldstream Gazette — Selected Excerpts

Goldstream Gazette
A4 Wednesday, June 17, 2020

Woman in critical condition following fatal Malahat crash

The woman injured in Saturday’s fatal Malahat crash remains in critical condition.

The West Shore RCMP responded to a single motorcycle crash at approximately 2:50 p.m. on June 13.

The motorcycle was travelling in the northbound lane before it collided with the median.

The driver of the motorcycle was identified as a 53-year-old man who died on scene. A passenger on the motorcycle was identified as a 58-year-old woman who was taken to hospital and remained in critical condition Monday.

West Shore RCMP confirmed both were residents of Vancouver Island but have not identified their home town or released any personal information beyond their ages at the time of the Gazette’s press deadline.

An RCMP traffic reconstructionist was on scene after the crash and the northbound lane was closed while crews investigated and cleared the scene. The highway was closed for approximately four hours and reopened at 6:50 p.m.

The cause of the crash is still under investigation.

(Additional newspaper content truncated for brevity in this extract.)

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Goldstream Gazette
A10 Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Masks make communication tougher for the deaf
Kendra Crighton, News Staff

For people in the deaf or hard of hearing communities the pandemic has created additional challenges for communication.

Alexandria McGarva, who is hard of hearing, has stopped going to public places she’s unfamiliar with because of the additional struggles created by social distancing and wearing a mask.

McGarva, who is also the director of the young adult network for the Canadian Hard of Hearing Association, can only hear people from about a metre away, so keeping the six feet between her and other people as mandated by social distancing regulations makes communicating even more “anxiety-inducing.”

“[While in the grocery store lineup] I kept dropping stuff and another customer said something and I couldn’t understand,” she says, adding that she could only use the top half of the other customer’s face to try to decipher what was said. “I was like I think she’s laughing or said a funny joke, so we laughed together but I have no idea what she said.”

Kristi Falconer, communications manager for the Island Deaf and Hard of Hearing Centre, says there are a few solutions to the issue.

“Things like the shields that are all clear … those are ideal,” she says, adding that’s what staff at IDHHC wear. “That allows the individual to be able to see the mouth, see the whole facial expressions and be able to get that communication that they need to be able to piece together spoken word.”

Another option being marketed are masks that have a clear plastic cover over the mouth so people can lip read.

McGarva has mixed opinions about those but thinks it’s a step in the right direction.

“Lipreading is only a small aspect of what I do to understand what I hear, most is reading the rest of the face,” she says. “… Things like how big the mask window is, glare, how crumpled it is and how much fabric blocks the face affects my perspective – the less fabric, the bigger the window, the better.”

McGarva hopes businesses especially take her message to heart because “you really only get one chance.” She says one of the main reasons she goes to a limited number of places because she feels like the staff at said places have the patients to communicate with her.

“It’s important for businesses to not over think things and for staff to relax and not show frustration,” she says, adding that her colleague at the Association put together a letter to business owners with a number of suggestions on how to be more accessible.

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NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE AND DISPOSITION

The City of Langford hereby gives public notice of its intention to close and dispose of a portion of road, shown in heavy outline in Schedule ‘A’, known as a portion of Leigh Road and Donna Avenue, which was dedicated as highway by Plans 8198, 8988, 22423, and VIP84403; and to dispose of Remainder Lot 6, Section 99, Esquimalt District, Plan 8198, Except Part in Plan VIP84403 as shown on the plan below.

The approximate 705.7m2 (7,596.1 ft2) portion of Leigh Road and Donna Avenue intended to be removed as highway dedication and disposed of, will be considered by the Council of the City of Langford at its regular meeting at the City Hall, 3rd Floor, 877 Goldstream Avenue, on Monday, 29 June 2020 at 5:30pm. Persons who consider they are affected by the Bylaw will be provided an opportunity to make representations to Council at the meeting, or by delivering a written submission to the Corporate Officer by 4:00 pm on that date.

The City of Langford also intends to transfer the closed portion of road to Samuel and Samson Mow, the owner of the adjoining property shown as 1109 Donna Avenue, for $31.50/ft2 minus the cost to construct the new public access and parking within the transfer area.

Schedule ‘A’

Braden Hutchins
Director of Corporate Services