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Heritage planning continues New survey live on OB’s website until Dec. 31 Natalie North News staff
Defining a community’s heritage values is no easy feat. After two town hall meetings, focus groups and online surveys, the man behind the consultation process to establish a heritage plan, himself an expert in Oak Bay history, would rather quote an impassioned citizen than infuse the discussion with his own opinion. “You can stand in a cathedral and you can stand in a warehouse. Both will shelter you, but each will give you a different visceral feeling in your gut,” said Stuart Stark, quoting one outspoken man at the Dec. 4 heriNatalie North present tage plan town hall meeting. Reporting “Oak Bay’s special character, he likened more to a cathedral.” The meeting was led by Stark, of Victoria-based Stuart Stark & Associates and Donald Luxton of Donald Luxton and Associates Inc. from Vancouver, and was the latest event in an ongoing consultation process to identify Oak Bay’s heritage values for incorporation in a new heritage plan. Council approved the request from the heritage commission – an amalgamation of the heritage committee and heritage advisory panel – earlier in the spring. The update of the 10-year-old heritage plan serendipitously coincides with the creation of a new official community plan, in the works for 2013.
Christmas in bloom Rotarian Don O'Coffey, left, Oak Bay Councillor Cairine Green and Oak Bay Rotary Club president Joan Peggs in an Allenby Street garage filled with some of the 300 poinsettias they sold to local residents and businesses raising money for local and international Rotary projects.
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