LAND PLANNING & TRANSPORTATION
Saanich is a beautiful municipality full of green spaces, forests, parks and waterways. We need to protect and preserve our community by using a balanced approach to development. We need to ensure collaboration on transportation and land-use decisions so that we increase density along our major corridors (Shelbourne, Tillicum, Quadra, Mackenzie) and at our main transportation hubs (Uptown, Royal Oak). We must also work with agencies like BC Transit to create Park and Ride/incentive parking solutions.
Rather than continuing an urban sprawl form of development, which requires significant capital spending, we need to instead utilize high density development strategies in our urban areas. This will increase our municipal tax base without significantly increasing the cost of service provision.