The Secondary Suites Review Committee has finished its long and quite extensive consultation and has handed in its final report (PDF) to council last night. Predictably, council opted to talk a little bit more about it. Leading off the talking was Councillor Jensen, chair of the committee, who started by thanking everybody that participated, especially [...]
Posts under ‘Secondary Suites’
Renters! Your voice is needed on secondary suites
Oak Bay has been considering legalisation of secondary suites for most of this year already and they have recently sent out a form asking for opinion on secondary suites as part of the tax notice. But us poor renters don’t own the property and thus don’t receive the tax notices (although we do pay the [...]
A daily grab-bag of links
The world keeps turning, even if I have been crazy busy with various non-bike relating things. So I present a grab-bag of fun links and commentary on news stories: Packed in like sardines. It is a cliche and yet our buses (and public transit across the world) often feel more like a can of fish [...]
Some people have a strange sense of humour
In response to my post about the secondary suite consultation (specifically the part about the call for a vote by homeowners, not voters): Image created by Wirelizard Designs
Irony
Yesterday evening I managed to make it to the community roundtable on the legalization of secondary suites. I was pleasantly surprised at the number of people who actually supported the legalization of secondary suites in the crowd. There were at least a few at every table save one. I have no idea as to the [...]
Central Saanich council decides to be nice
A few weeks ago, before the last election, the Central Saanich council decided it would be a great idea if they cut off the water to homes with illegal suites. Earlier this week council decided to hold off on that idea for now. Maybe this is an early Christmas gifts for all those poor tenants? [...]
