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Property owners push for removal from EDPA

Marathon Saanich council session focuses on three properties caught up in controversial bylaw
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LETTER: EDPA should be based on science

LETTER: EDPA should be based on science

There certainly is a need for science underlying any EDPA-like environmental law, as Saanich Coun. Karen Harper points out in your Nov. 10 issue.
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LETTER: New council follows familiar course on EDPA

LETTER: New council follows familiar course on EDPA

Re: Saanich councillor warns of ‘torturous experience’ as they consider replacing EDPA .
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LETTER: EDPA a rallying point for election

LETTER: EDPA a rallying point for election

Mary Ross’s letter, ‘EDPA proven to be unjust’, Nov. 15, displays the kind of fuzzy thinking that has lifted the anti EDPA coalition to a prominence it does not deserve. Reasoning by analogy is no path to truth – the confused analogy only makes that point and no other.
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EDPA bylaw restricts rural homeowners use of their property

If Saanich wants to be an environmental leader it should start with restoration and conservation on its own properties and parks
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Saanich EDPA open house set for June 17

Head to Saanich Commonwealth Place for opportunity to pose questions to staff about controversial environmental area
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Council requests review of EDPA bylaw

Motion to exempt single family properties from review rejected
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Mayor says it could take “years” to replace EDPA

Mayor says it could take “years” to replace EDPA

Mayor Richard Atwell said it will take Saanich “years” to replace a bylaw designed to protect environmentally sensitive areas that is one vote away from being repealed.
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EDPA prompts concerns

Saanich council will discuss Environmental Development Permit Area Monday night
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Town hall offers homeowners a say on new EDPA bylaw

Town hall offers homeowners a say on new EDPA bylaw

Saanich's new Environmental Development Permit Area is the subject of a town hall meeting set for Nov. 12
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