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On September 18th, at 7:00 PM you are invited to a community meeting which will take place at the Royal Oak fire station 4595 Elk Lake Drive.

The purpose of the meeting is to identify future plans for the property located behind the fire station at the end of Viewmont.

The Fire Department proposes to re-zone the muncipally owned two lots on Viewmont which is currently zoned RS10 to P1. The current zoning for the fire station on Elk Lake Drive is also zoned P1.

Landscape Architect , Beverly Windjack will be in attendance to address neighbour concerns pertaining to land use and environmental issues.

I hope this email as well as a mailed out invitiation will give adequate notice so that you can be in attendance at this meeting.

Please bring your questions to the community meeting and if you would like to contact my office prior to September 18th please call direct to 475-5423.

Saanich Fire Chief.

Two diagrams are available by clicking on the links here.

Diagram 1 Diagram 2

Here are a few photographs of the concert held in Brydon Park. Click on the individual pictures to enlarge them.

At the Roca General Meeting held on May 14, there was a presentation by Sher Morgan regarding the work of the Saanich Civic League. A copy of their brochure is below and as it clearly states, the arena in which the average voter has the most influence and power, are the Municipal elections, which occur this November.

At the civic level, the candidates are from your locality, there are no slick ads, no handlers making sure the correct "sound bites" are being put out there, no entourage to keep the "hoi polloi" away from the candidates, and the councilors, once elected will be directly responsible to the voters for their voting record. No sending them off to some far away capitol only to have them turn around and reverse their positions on the issues they campaigned on.

Greetings ROCA members. This just received from Saanich Planning. It is important to any of you who:

(1) Planned to attend the special committee of whole meeting Tues, May 6 at 7:30 p.m., in council chambers, municipal hall, concerning adoption of Official Community Plan, or

(2) Have particular interest in what may be allowed for new development on the site of former Royal Oak Middle School. the attached file is in "pdf." format.

We have been informed from Saanich that Mike Geric Construction has filed their plans through their Agent, Herb Kwan for the 2-12 story condo’s and a 1-6 story building on the middle school lands. The enclosed documents are from Saanich. If you are sending a letter to Saanich, please quote this information in your letter:

APPLICATION FOR DEVELOPMENT ON LOT 1, SECTION 9, LAKE DISTRICT, PLAN 26006 EXCEPT PART IN PLAN VIP83064 ▪ 4564 WEST SAANICH ROAD

At the Annual General Meeting of the Royal Oak Community Association, held February 19, 2008 a resolution was passed that indicated we do not support the proposal as presented. A response to Saanich’s memo (attached) has been sent.

We will be starting a process of contacting individual strata’s and neighbours to bring them up-to-date with the situation. We encourage you to participate in this very important issue.

We will also be trying to continue the discourse with Mike Geric Construction and their agent Herb Kwan. Clearly, the neighbourhood is not feeling comfortable with the proposal and we wish to find some more middle ground.

Katherine Whitworth

Phone: 479-8975

Email: familypeye@shaw.ca