Capital Regional District
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Sep 11, 2026
Adam StirlingHOST
Imagine the City Hall... thundering as everybody was expressing their outrage in Saanich.
Adam StirlingHOST
But as we talked about, there are different tolerances for different ecological issues in different parts of the CRD.
Adam StirlingHOST
And part of our coverage means that it's important for us to understand that there are certain expectations that an electorate has in some areas that simply are not shared elsewhere.
Adam StirlingHOST
And it's tough for me to sort of wrap my head around that, try to get an intuitive sense of how these issues are going to be processed.
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Adam StirlingHOST
We have political issues in terms of public safety and fire protection happening here in Victoria with Victoria's Firefighters Union holding a press conference yesterday afternoon signaling that they do intend to get politically involved for the first time in this organization's, I believe it's the first time, in this organization's history.
Adam StirlingHOST
Saanich, of course, has ongoing issues there in terms of housing development.
Adam StirlingHOST
The Capital Regional District Board met this week with Saanich Mayor Dean Murdoch, which we covered on yesterday's show, remarking that it would be one of his last times at the table seeding that work to try to build sufficient housing stock for future councils and future boards to have to deal with, while at the same time, we saw SOUC Mayor Maya Tate earlier this week at CRD, which we also covered on yesterday's show, talking about increasing costs for things like EECOM 911 access, any number of different pressures taking place at once.
Adam StirlingHOST
Mayor Tate was talking about trying to strike the balance between building new housing in SOUC, which I know that you know more about than I do while at the same time creating the amount of infrastructure that's needed to service those homes not just things like roads but also things like emergency services 24-7 policing practical considerations with ambulance access it all comes together Mike what are your thoughts on what we're seeing as we are now just over one month away from the election
Adam StirlingHOST
We will take a quick break and do more after this.
Adam StirlingHOST
Stories impacting the Capital Region.
Adam StirlingHOST
This is Adam Sterling on CFAX 1070.
Adam StirlingHOST
You know, if they actually wanted to talk about parking, it would have been smarter just to talk about how many particular spaces would ordinarily be required for this 12-storey building, this project.
Adam StirlingHOST
There are some members of council from the larger municipalities that also are appointed to the board and serve on the board, as well as representatives from from various electoral districts that are not formal municipalities themselves.
Adam StirlingHOST
Among the things we saw discussed yesterday was Victoria Director Marian Alto, who we also know is the mayor of the city of Victoria, pressing staff on the CRD and it not setting up a HIFIS list.
Adam StirlingHOST
That's the Homeless Individuals and Families Information System is the acronym that we heard discussed at Victoria Council yesterday.
Adam StirlingHOST
last week, all to at that point indicated that there was going to be discussion at the CRD board.
Adam StirlingHOST
The question she asked...
Adam StirlingHOST
And
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Yes, I am aware.
speaker_4SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
It is funding.
Adam StirlingHOST
We covered that on the show yesterday.
Adam StirlingHOST
And of course, Langford for years and years and years has grappled with the problem of ensuring that there's adequate water available for these sprawling developments that continue to cover increasing amounts of the West Shore, which of course was an important aspect of the CRD water development cost charge program, which by the way, passed yesterday, the final vote, Zero opposition, zero debate even, passing with basically no friction and no opposition at all yesterday at the Capital Regional District Board, which might I add has a brand new audio video set up with what looks like auto-tracking cameras and keys that have the title and the name of the speaker.
Adam StirlingHOST
There we go.
Adam StirlingHOST
We recognize Chris Coleman's voice though, Victoria Councillor.
Cliff McNeil-SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
That's Cliff McNeil-Smith,
Adam StirlingHOST
mayor of the town of Sydney, which now has a nice label on the screen.
Adam StirlingHOST
If you're watching the CRD feed, this is a new thing that they turned on yesterday.
Cliff McNeil-SmithSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
This is a way that participants all, except some Gulf Islands and Salt Spring Island, Any discussion? Look to call the question.
Adam StirlingHOST
Lots of things on the agenda, including, as we discussed on the show yesterday, an issue that apparently had to be kept, I don't know, I don't know if the term secret is correct, but tightly under his hat according to Highlands Councilor Gord Baird, who disclosed to colleagues during reports of committees and commissions last night at Highlands Council.
Adam StirlingHOST
The development cost charge program for the CRD's water master plan and their new system-
Gord BairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So moved
Adam StirlingHOST
... was discussed.
Gord BairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, I've been holding this, uh, tight, uh, this knowledge tight under my hat for quite some time.
Adam StirlingHOST
Tight under his hat for quite some time.
Gord BairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Um, uh, the council will know that the CRD Regional Water Supply has been dealing with a very, uh, I'm gonna say a very big program, the Development Cost Charge program.
Gord BairdSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And, uh, back earlier this summer in July, we received statutory approval from the BC Inspector of Municipalities, and, um, it wasn't until the agenda was published today that I can say that, uh, the province has approved it, and, uh, our mayor and the rest of the CRD board will hopefully be approving it, uh, tomorrow sometime.
Adam StirlingHOST
I found it interesting to sample some of the public feedback that we saw in Highlands last night.
Adam StirlingHOST
Now, we already played the clips of Councilor Gord Baird r- reporting to his colleagues, including the mayor, who is the CRD director for Highlands, who should be present at CRD board right now.
Adam StirlingHOST
I haven't brought up a screen, but I expect that they're all in that room doing something.
Adam StirlingHOST
Number of important items on their agenda today.
speaker_3SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But it is, on average, roughly, um 225 meetings over just this recent, most recent four-year period.
Adam StirlingHOST
You want to know how many meetings there are with all the municipalities combined over an entire year? I actually have a list I could tell you, but it's an embarrassingly large number.
Adam StirlingHOST
If I had fully understood the breadth of the extra work that was going to be required to try to cover all the municipalities in the CRD, I would have still done it anyways because I told you that I would.
Adam StirlingHOST
But there are a huge number of meetings that take place in this town that I think most people don't even know about.
Adam StirlingHOST
Because they're building a water system out in Centre Mountain.
Adam StirlingHOST
They're building a reservoir as well as water mains and whatnot that will eventually be handed over to the CRD as part of the whole regional water system.
Adam StirlingHOST
But this one isn't being paid for through the CRD.
Adam StirlingHOST
This one's being paid for a system where Langford's borrowing the money up front, expecting to get it back through parcel taxes.
Adam StirlingHOST
That was according to reporting four years ago.
Adam StirlingHOST
And then we will hear what Prime Minister Mark Carney had to say.
Adam StirlingHOST
But I do want to, before we move on, I want to leave one thing.
Adam StirlingHOST
in terms of how we are expecting the CRD board vote to go this week on the Water Master Plan.
Adam StirlingHOST
We'll take a quick break and do more after this.
Adam StirlingHOST
Stories impacting the Capital Region.
Adam StirlingHOST
This is Adam Sterling on CFAX 1070.
Adam StirlingHOST
All right, B.C. Premier David Eby wearing his red flannel with a big, huge Canadian flag in the background.
Ryan PainterGUEST
So what I would say is, If I'm lucky enough to be at the table, I would absolutely make the unfunded infrastructure that is under View Royal an issue.
Ryan PainterGUEST
But that in and of itself is one of those sub-regional issues that we need to deal with at the CRD table.
Ryan PainterGUEST
We're fortunate.
Ryan PainterGUEST
I think the wastewater management largely has been dealt with from a central perspective with the new wastewater treatment facility.
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Ryan PainterGUEST
The number 46 bus, having it operate seven days a week between 11 a.m. and 7 a.m. or something like that.
Ryan PainterGUEST
The 46 giving it more stops, adding more bus shelters.
Ryan PainterGUEST
improving the regulations around scooters and e-bikes on the Galloping Goose so people can walk along that and feel safer, right? There's all kinds of things you can do at the kind of CRD level.
Ryan PainterGUEST
The rapid bus system, which my wife takes, she takes the Blink 95 most days from work downtown.
Adam StirlingHOST
More after this.
Adam StirlingHOST
Stories impacting the Capital Region.
Adam StirlingHOST
This is Adam Sterling on CFAX 1070.
Adam StirlingHOST
No, it's the one thing that I've reflected on over and over again, covering problems caused by smaller municipal governments, shocking things that should have never been allowed to happen in the first place, that of course did happen.
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