Scott Goodmanson is the new mayor of Langford. Who? In a shocking turn at the polls Saturday night, the unknown candidate beat Stew Young the seven-term, 30-year mayor with 53 per cent of the vote.
The properties that were discussed by the committee on April 12 have been designated for multi-family residential development in Langford’s Official Community Plan since 1996. That plan was devised with a great deal of public input and duly reviewed publicly and adopted through a democratic process by a democratically elected council. The land use that is being proposed was also supported by a 1999 amendment to the Official Community Plan that specifically looked at downtown revitalization and was again supported in 2008 when the City of Langford adopted its new Official Community Plan. In 2018, and again after open public consultation, Dr. Avi Friedman of McGill University prepared for Langford a three-volume Vision for Downtown Langford which was incorporated, in part, into the Official Community Plan in 2019.
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