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Eby could not elaborate on any specific hotels or buildings being considered. An estimated 190 people are sheltering in Victoria parks but the province is preparing to house “significantly” more than that to ensure no one is left behind, Eby said. B.C. Housing is working with the City of Victoria to identify appropriate supportive housing sites. Eby said any new supportive housing facilities should not be in the Burnside Gorge neighbourhood, which is already home to several such facilities including the former Comfort Inn on Blanshard Street and several former hotels on Gorge Road East. “I’m very clear with both B.C. Housing and Victoria that adding additional sites at Burnside Gorge is not on the table so we need to diversify and find other sites,” Eby said.
The provincial government is looking to buy or lease another hotel or vacant residential building in Greater Victoria to house hundreds of people without homes before the end of March, says B.C.’s . . .
VICTORIA The Capital Regional Hospital District board (CHRD) is looking for the public’s input to help decide the future of Oak Bay Lodge, a former long-term care home. The future use of the four-acre site will be discussed during a pair of virtual open houses planned for Jan. 21 and 26. On Jan. 6, the CHRD launched an information page on the Capital Regional District’s website to provide information on the redevelopment of the former Oak Bay care home. “We’re asking people in the region to tell us what they see for that property for health-care, because it s a health-care facility,” said Capital Regional Hospital District board chair Denise Blackwell. “For example, we could do multi-use on the main floor and we could have some kind of health-care use – like an urgent primary care centre like the one we have in Langford.”
Online open houses are planned for Jan. 21 and 26, with the first round of consultation already underway at crd.bc.ca/oakbaylodge. Capital region residents can visit the site to review information, weigh in via an online feedback form and sign up for the open houses. Consultation will continue until Feb. 4, with a second round expected in the spring. “Working with the community to reimagine the future use of the property is a high-priority project for the region,” said Denise Blackwell, who chairs the board for the Capital Regional Hospital District, which is overseeing the planning and consultation process. Blackwell said the property will continue to be used for a health-care facility. “So for example we could have an urgent primary care centre on the main floor like we have out in Langford, or maybe a pharmacy, and then have care beds up above.”