Bows to provincial pressure in allowing secondary suites on property outside the Urban Containment Boundary.
Saanich council has opted for the devil it knows rather than the devil it doesn’t, approving a bylaw that will allow secondary suites in homes outside the Urban Containment Boundary.
Murdock had asked Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon for an exemption that would allow Saanich to prohibit secondary and garden suites on rural property. “I understand the district’s concern about the impact of increased density outside of the Urban Containment Boundary. However, far from resulting in dramatic increases in density, secondary suites are compatible in scale and form within established single-family neighbourhoods,” Kahlon wrote.
The majority of council made it clear it would not be interested in allowing any further densification, such as allowing garden suites, in rural areas.
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