• On January 8, 2025 Save Our Saanich has taken out a full-page ad in the Saanich News. (See below)
• On January 7, 2025 Save Our Saanich met again with Councillor Susan Brice, to discuss ramifications of the Plan, and how it will affect Saanich neighbourhoods.
• On January 7, 2025, we reached 2,500 signatures (and many comments) on our online Petition! The Petition will continue as long as we can, before Saanich Council considers the Quadra McKenzie Plan at a Council Meeting in February. (Date to be announced)
We will announce that date on the Website.
Full-page ad: Saanich News January 8, 2025:
• In December 2024, Save Our Saanich added this sign on Quadra Street, on a block of 27 privately-owned properties (all currently zoned single-family) on the north side of Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary, which the Quadra McKenzie Plan has designated – without any consultation with owners – as a ‘Special Zone’, allowing buildings as tall as 12-storeys (or more).
• This is one of THREE ‘Special Zones’ along Quadra Street with the same ’12-storey’ designations.
• The Second 12-storey ‘Special Area’ backs up against the boundary of Christmas Hill Nature Sanctuary on the west side of Quadra Street, including properties on Nicholson Street and Eagle Rock Terrace. (This is across Quadra Street from another planned 12-storey building, with plans already drawn up.)
• The Third 12-storey ‘Special Area’, further south, off Lodge Avenue, completely rings an important small park (Leeds Park), which drains through a wetland into Swan Lake Nature Sanctuary.
• How does this make sense? What sort of ‘Twenty-year Plan’ devastates Nature Sanctuaries in this day and age?
Any major development in these areas – including any building higher than tree height – would wreak similar damage.
• Save Our Saanich has already met with Mayor Murdock and Councillors Colin Plant, Susan Brice, Zac DeVries, Mena Westhaver, and Judy Brownoff. We are having a second meeting with Susan Brice in January.
• Councillor Teale Phelps Bondaroff has agreed to a meeting in January.
• There has been no meeting yet with Councillor Karen Harper.
• Volunteers from Save Our Saanich are out canvassing neighbourhoods within the Quadra McKenzie Plan Area. They are meeting residents, handing out flyers and explaining how their neighbourhoods might change over the next few years.
Most residents are appalled with this Plan. Others are angry or in tears. We have had many offers to help, which are appreciated. Thank you.
• Our deep concerns have been passed on. But we need more voices.
• Please sign the PETITION on our Home Page and leave your comments and reaction to the Plan.
• Even more importantly, please email Mayor Murdock and each councillor individually and let them know how you feel. Their email addresses are listed on our Home page.
• Also email Lana Popham, MLA for Saanich South; and Premier David Eby; as the B.C. NDP government is the reason municipalities are having to / trying to increase densities within their boundaries.
Their email addresses are also listed on our Home page.
Also:
• November 26, 2025: NOTE: SAANICH HAS NOW CLOSED THE Quadra McKenzie Plan SURVEY as of November 26.
Save Our Saanich.
Please Sign the Petition on the Home Page.
Contact: [email protected]
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