A petition against the Bayview Place developement is gathering signatures and steam. Phase 2 could see nine towers and up to 1,900 units built in Vic West.
Developer Ken Mariash has spent years trying to develop Bayview Place on a 20-acre piece of land in the Songhees neighbourhood of Vic West.
It’s a National Historic Site, the largest collection of intact railway buildings in Western Canada, including the Roundhouse in Vic West.It’s finished, and now the new plan for the rest of the site is for nine towers, some as tall as 28-storeys.Arthur McInnis lives across the Inner Harbour in James Bay.
He’s part of a group determined to convince Victoria council to reconsider the proposed zoning for the project.“Here are some of the signed petitions we left with the city last week. We’re up about 1,150 or so,” McInnis said.“I’ve been accused of being afraid of tall buildings. I’m not,” he said. “What I’m afraid of are too many tall buildings on one site. And that’s what we’ve got here.”Victoria council has seen the preliminary design but a public hearing date hasn’t been set.
“Nine is too much. Nine towers. So we said go back to the original plan, do that,” said McInnis. “Redevelop the Roundhouse. The heritage properties that are there, all six of them.”She was long-viewed as the city’s strongest defender of all things heritage, and fears the housing crisis may lead to the project being rushed.Sign up for the CHEK Now daily email newsletter to get breaking news and the day's top stories sent to your email.
“This is Victoria, this is one of the world’s best small cities, we’ve got to keep things in proportion,” McInnis said.
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