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960 Foul Bay Road is a townhome development with a restoration of a heritage home to be converted into residential suites, along the 900-block of Foul Bay Road at Brighton Avenue in the District of Oak Bay within Victoria's urban core.
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A Victoria developer wants to update and move a 111-year-old mansion a few metres toward Oak Bay Ave., to make room for a complex consisting of 16 townhouses, with 24 total units in three buildings, and the idea is not sitting well with some of the neighbours.
Marking Developments owner Jennifer Travelbea said the large home, built in 1914 by renowned BC architect Samuel Maclure at 960 Foul Bay Rd., would be renovated to fit an additional eight strata units and that the project would help Oak Bay meet its provincial housing targets.
“You can't pick up a newspaper in this province without hearing how desperately we need housing, right?” Travelbea told Capital Daily.
https://www.capitaldaily.ca/news/oak-bay-townhouse-proposal-perturbs-some-in-the-neighbourhood
A proposed pathway roughly a dozen metres long that would be built along Brighton Ave., theoretically would help keep pedestrians safe, but Armitage said the current design brings it to an abrupt end, which would force pedestrians onto the Brighton asphalt, in the way of traffic.
Asphalt—or too much of it—is another concern, Armitage told Capital Daily. The felling of trees (possibly as many as 27, Travelbea said) would make for a thinner canopy and increased temperatures as the sun beats down on black asphalt.
99% or more of the days in the year I would think that "sun beating down on black asphalt" would be a welcome, if not a fantastic natural heating element.
24-units in one lot, I bet the residents of Oak Bay never imagined this style of development would come knocking.
Oh yeah, right within the Oak Bay border.
24-units in one lot, I bet the residents of Oak Bay never imagined this style of development would come knocking.
Two previous proposals rejected, but before the crisis, or at least before the province started breathing down the neck of OB.
Oh yeah, right within the Oak Bay border.
24-units in one lot, I bet the residents of Oak Bay never imagined this style of development would come knocking.
Not your average “lot” though. One acre on a fairly busy street. An opportunity for Oak Bay to have something to point at when they’re not approving most everything else.
