Benjamin Allan

For over a decade, property taxes have far exceeded the rate of inflation. How much longer can we allow this to continue? The residents of Saanich want high level municipal services but also want their hard-earned money to be spent wisely. As such, the council needs to be held accountable for every dollar spent.

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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.

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If elected, I will work to develop collaborative strategies and to engage with other municipalities in order to reduce service duplication and increase shared services, thus decreasing the overall cost to the tax payer.