Oak Bay: six homes rejected
Oak Bay rejects six-home Uplands development. Darren Kloster, Victoria Times-Colonist.
The application fit Oak Bay’s zoning bylaws, but needed to meet unique siting and design guidelines, which include new builds being sensitive to existing houses and landscape features.
The developer, under guidance from municipal staff, tweaked some of the plans, including redesigning a building to reduce the loss of trees, reducing driveway and laneway widths, updating fencing and increasing overall tree plantings.
Ultimately, however, a majority of councillors said it wasn’t enough.
Two years ago, the province said Oak Bay was required to build 664 new homes by 2028, but the district managed to deliver only 16 of 56 net-new units targeted in its first year.
Previously: 10 years to approve a four-storey, 14-unit condo project.
Oak Bay (v)
To unreasonably obstruct, reduce, limit, or otherwise prevent the development of any housing other than a McMansion in a location other than a University campus located on the edge of a municipality.
The BC Housing Targets are "fantasy" numbers not in line with absent & stressed infrastructure plans & high costs. Great to see some communities willing to stand up against unbridled development.