After passionately voicing concerns at a four-hour public hearing, residents around Shelbourne Street and McRae Avenue can still expect to see a six-storey development emerge at the southwest corner of the intersection.

Having heard critiques related to parking, reduced setbacks and what some felt was non-adherence to the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan (SVAP), Saanich council unanimously approved Abstract Developments’ mixed-use, market-ratecondominium building for this mostly single-family home neighbourhood.


https://www.vicnews.com/news/six-storeys-it-is-for-shelbourne-street-development-in-saanich/

Pure NIMBYism is the only reason to object to this proposal.

Edit: eventually all the properties along Shelbourne between Hillside and McKenzie will be multi-family housing.

Pure NIMBYism is the only reason to object to this proposal.

There is the official plan, agreed to after extensive public consultation, which limits that location to 4 storeys.

Or was the consultation and plan merely a sham?

There is the official plan, agreed to after extensive public consultation, which limits that location to 4 storeys...

A well designed 6-storey building can be barely noticeably taller than a 4-storey building. The OCP underestimated the need for MFDs along Shelbourne.

Having heard critiques related to parking, reduced setbacks and what some felt was non-adherence to the Shelbourne Valley Action Plan (SVAP),

What, no one was fighting on behalf of the trees? They missed part of the script.