A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.
In response to community concerns, police in the Upper Fraser Valley have started a bicycle safety awareness campaign. The campaign’s goal is to remind cyclists that when they’re out and about, the rules of the road apply equally to bicycles and cars.
An oft-repeated claim about the impressively high number of restaurants in Victoria is nothing more than a 30-year-old urban myth, says the former president of the local restaurant association. The data to back up that claim doesn’t exist, said Frank Bourree, principal of Chemistry Consulting Group and former president of Victoria’s Restaurant and Foodservices Association.
“Growing A Food Movement” in Campbell River has begun. The three small commercial farms now growing produce within our municipal boundaries are the forerunners of a local sustainable food movement. They are the first players in a visionary plan laid out by the Agriculture Advisory Steering Committee.
Three cities that neighbour Coquitlam say they want to see the municipality get a better handle on its future traffic as it prepares its regional growth plan.
While it is commonly used for overflow parking, the City of Penticton has plans to turn a spit of land separating the marina from the beach area along Marina Way into the city’s latest park. Dubbed the Marina Way Lookout, the city considers the spit an environmentally sensitive area, and has restoration plans including planting more than 20 trees and 300 shrubs indigenous to the area while removing undesirable and invasive plants.