TOGETHER WITH | | COMMUNITY EVENTS | 🌳 Food Forest Fall Party with the Fairfield Gonzales Community Association is taking place this Sunday, Oct. 1 from 12-3pm at Robert J. Porter park. | 🥯 Get handmade small batch New York-style bagels delivered to your door in Oak Bay or within five kilometres from downtown. Order on Tuesdays and Fridays. | 🦃 Thanksgiving lunch at the Monterey Fern Cafe. From 11am to 1pm, get your hands on this hot meal including turkey, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing, roasted yams, brussels sprouts, and carrots, with coffee and tea and a mini pie for dessert all for $17.50. | 🎶 Rockin' & Shoutin' The Blues with David Vest at the Sports View Lounge. Catch this show at Oak Bay Recreation Centre on Friday, Oct. 13, at 7:30pm. |
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| | COMMUNITY NEWS | 🏘 Oak Bay directed by BC Government to build 664 housing units in five years. The targets include thousands of below-market rental units for the largest and fastest-growing communities. [Capital Daily] | 🎶 The community celebrated the retirement of longtime Willows music teacher Gail Evans this week, who has dedicated 37 years to educating and inspiring students through the gift of music. [Oak Bay Local] | 🌳 Surge in Garry Oak tree planting leads to “boon year” for the native species. They are drought resistant and produce much-needed shade as temperatures continue to rise. [Times Colonist] | 🚒 Oak Bay reaches fire dispatch deal with Saanich. The current deal will go to 2028, and has a fee-per-call payment structure, where each municipality will pay quarterly based on the number of calls. [Times Colonist] | 🛑 Oak Bay road closures were seen this week after a natural gas leak. Lansdowne Road, between Uplands and Cadboro Bay Roads, was closed in both directions as FortisBC crews worked to shut off the gas. [Oak Bay Fire Department] | 🩰 Ukrainian Shumka Dancers’ Nutcracker is unlike any Nutcracker you’ve seen! Oak Bay Local readers save 20% off adult tickets until Sep. 30. Promo code: Nut-OakBayLocal at Royal and McPherson Theatres or 250-386-6121.* | *Sponsored Listing | Have you tried planting a native species? | | | P.S. Did someone forward you this email? Subscribe here. |
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| | PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT | To join the conversation, become a member of the Oak Bay Local Facebook Group | Housing densification | In response to the announcement that the BC government will be assigning Oak Bay, along with other municipalities, to build new housing units within five years, many in the community had something to say. One local suggested this could be achieved if high density housing were allowed on the lands of Windsor Park adjacent to Newport Avenue. The commenter suggested further that towers should be at least 20 storeys in height and harbour a retail giant such as a Superstore on the street level. | Others suggested that if new buildings are coming up, there needs to also be a plan in how to manage new housing with other infrastructure, including hospitals, doctors, and schools. Many agreed that more affordable housing is needed for the community, so people can continue to live here, or move back if they left before it became so expensive. Several were concerned that these changes could negatively impact the community or change its character. | |
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| | | Future development plans for Oak Bay Recreation Centre | An Oak Bay local reached out to the group in search of answers as to whether there were future development plans in the works for the Oak Bay Recreation Centre. While there were no definitive answers given, many were quick to add their recommendations and wish list, which include: | An outdoor mini golf course on the roof Washrooms by the tennis court An outdoor pool Affordable housing rentals on upper levels
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| | PHOTO OF THE WEEK |  | Photo credit: Mary McArthur |
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