Mount View Colquitz Community Association
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    • Affordable Housing
    • Nigel Avenue Re-development
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    • 3656 Raymond S South
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    • Uptown Phase IV
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                                    LINKS AND RECOMMENDED READING  

Below are links to the Municipality of Saanich, the Capital Regional District, other community groups and links to the broader community of research into urban planning.

                Capital Regional District
                           Regional growth strategy

                                      Natural Gardening                                 

                District of Saanich                                                 

                    Appointments to Saanich Committees 
                     
Archives
                    Capital Works Projects current year report                

                   
Development Applications


                   Get Involved
                      Feedback Form
          
                    Saanich Council meetings  -  broadcast live and recorded for later viewing.
                      Uptown - Douglas Corridor Study

           If you have any questions with respect to meeting procedures, please contact the
           Legislative Services Division at 250-475-1775 or by email to council@saanich.ca .

           
           Useful Local links


                   BC Government: McKenzie interchange
                   Capital Bike
                   Colquitz Coalition
                   Friends of Swan Creek Watershed
              Garry Oak Ecosystems Recovery Team
               
Peninsula Streams
              Nigel Valley Project
              Saanich Police - neighbourhood speed reports
     
         Walk On, Victoria

 
           Useful  Information on urban planning

               
Canada Green Building Council
                Canadian Urban Institute
               
Opening Doors: Final report of the Canada-British Columbia Expert Panel on
                                the Future of Housing Supply and Affordability
   (June 2021)  link     
                Project For Public Spaces
                National Assoc. of City Transportation Officials

               
"How to Make an Attractive City" video 
                 "7 Principles for building Better Cities" TED Talk video


                
          Useful Books available at the Greater Victoria Public Library
               
                Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State. Samuel Stein 2019
                Happy City: transforming our lives through urban design.   Charles Montgomery
                The High Cost of Free Parking.    Donald C. Shroup
                How to kill a City: gentrification, inequality and the fight for the neighborhood. Peter Moskowitz  2017
                The New Urban Crisis.   Richard Florida  2017
               
Saving Farmland : the fight for real food.  Nathalie Chambers   2015
                Streetfight: Handbook for an Urban Revolution.   Janette Sadik-Kahn  2016
                Walkable city.  Jeff Speck  2012
                Vancouverism. Larry Beasley  2019




                       

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