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“I’m not going to answer any personal questions put forward to me from Coun. Lillian Szpak. I will let the mayor and council know, of course, and the public, I travelled to the United States, followed Canadian and United States protocol, checked in with both of them. I left before the new travel restrictions were brought in to British Columbia. I am down here on legal and essential business,” Sahlstrom told council while participating online. Sahlstrom has not responded to interview requests by phone, email or texts for several weeks. In an interview before the council meeting, Szpak said she planned to introduce the motion to give council a chance to ask Sahlstrom directly to explain the reason for his international travel during B.C.’s third wave of the pandemic.
The properties that were discussed by the committee on April 12 have been designated for multi-family residential development in Langford’s Official Community Plan since 1996. That plan was devised with a great deal of public input and duly reviewed publicly and adopted through a democratic process by a democratically elected council. The land use that is being proposed was also supported by a 1999 amendment to the Official Community Plan that specifically looked at downtown revitalization and was again supported in 2008 when the City of Langford adopted its new Official Community Plan. In 2018, and again after open public consultation, Dr. Avi Friedman of McGill University prepared for Langford a three-volume Vision for Downtown Langford which was incorporated, in part, into the Official Community Plan in 2019.
Letters April 22 timescolonist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from timescolonist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
LANGFORD The developer of a contentious project in Langford has made some concessions following concerns from the community, though local residents say it s still not enough. At a planning and zoning committee meeting Monday night, Design Build Services, working on behalf of the property owner, agreed to reduce two proposed condo towers between Goldstream Avenue and Fairway Avenue to six storeys each instead of 12. “The community was really upset when it was proposed for two 12-storey buildings, which is perfectly understandable,” said Langford councillor Denise Blackwell. “So staff worked very hard with that particular developer to make sure that they brought it more in scale with that end of the municipality.”