The 9.71% hike would coincide with an 8.83% increase in property taxes and a multi-million-dollar loan to float a new Crystal Pool.

Municipalities are slated to take on the brunt of the cost of local RCMP emergency calls

Victoria wants to avoid being the extreme weather shelter hub again this winter.

“For the average household, there would be an annual increase of $22 for water, $7 for sewer, $26 for stormwater, and $13 for solid waste,” the draft plan states.

Large sequoia growing off Douglas to be a casualty of City Hall plaza revitalization

The group said if the council doesn’t reconsider, it will move to apply the province’s judicial review laws to ask a judge to revisit the decision for serious errors or unfairness.

The closest gas station is the Shell on Esquimalt, over the Johnson Street Bridge, 2.1 km away. The Petro-Can in Fairfield by Ross Bay Cemetery is a 3km+ drive.

"This is a win-win. Saanich is getting their tower and we saved the park.” - Darrel Wick, president of PKOLS-Mount Douglas Conservancy.