Design Plan Now Published For Your Feedback

For more than a year, we've been working with stakeholders and consulting the community while we create a design plan for Saanichton Village. The plan will help shape the design for buildings, public spaces, and transportation routes for pedestrians, cyclists, and vehicles--guiding future developments in the area to support a well-planned neighbourhood.

Highlights of the Saanichton Village Design Plan

• The plan provides a 30-year vision for the Saanichton Village core.
• The plan’s proposed policies and guidelines will guide private and public investment and redevelopment.
• The plan envisions a compact, people-focused Village with more green spaces, public gathering spaces and pedestrian-oriented design. The village at the moment is characterized by car-centric development.
• The plan calls for a range of multi-use, multi-storey buildings (three to five storeys) with an emphasis on street-level storefronts and a residential units above.
• Off-street parking (underground or at the rear of buildings) would minimize impacts on the pedestrian realm.
• Incorporate permeable surfacing and trees to manage rainwater, provide shade and provide urban habitat.

Providing Input

You are invited to provide input to staff and Council. Due to COVID-19 our typical procedures for input have been modified. Please email comments by September 30, 2020, to: planning@csaanich.ca, or send by mail: Planning Department, District of Central Saanich, 1903 Mt Newton Cross Road, Saanichton, BC V8M 1N3.

You can view the plan here. Please share your feedback with us by emailing planning@csaanich.ca by September 30.

We will take community feedback to Council when they review the plan later this fall.