The District of North Saanich has won an injunction against a landowner who has constructed or converted several structures on his property into housing, contrary to local zoning bylaws.
Kenneth Rawlins, who owns the land, told the B.C. Supreme Court that the rental suites he created provide necessary affordable housing in a community suffering from a lack of it. He also argued that the rental income he receives from the suites allows him to afford to keep the property.
Indeed, North Saanich's Official Community Plan calls for the 1.1-acre property on East Saanich Road to be rezoned as multi-family residential, a designation that would allow up to 23 units to be constructed on the lot, according to the court decision. A detached garage, permitted as a single-storey detached garage, but onto which an upper floor was constructed to create a suite without authorization, described as a "carriage house"
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