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VICTORIA The Capital Regional Hospital District board (CHRD) is looking for the public’s input to help decide the future of Oak Bay Lodge, a former long-term care home. The future use of the four-acre site will be discussed during a pair of virtual open houses planned for Jan. 21 and 26. On Jan. 6, the CHRD launched an information page on the Capital Regional District’s website to provide information on the redevelopment of the former Oak Bay care home. “We’re asking people in the region to tell us what they see for that property for health-care, because it s a health-care facility,” said Capital Regional Hospital District board chair Denise Blackwell. “For example, we could do multi-use on the main floor and we could have some kind of health-care use – like an urgent primary care centre like the one we have in Langford.”
Online open houses are planned for Jan. 21 and 26, with the first round of consultation already underway at crd.bc.ca/oakbaylodge. Capital region residents can visit the site to review information, weigh in via an online feedback form and sign up for the open houses. Consultation will continue until Feb. 4, with a second round expected in the spring. “Working with the community to reimagine the future use of the property is a high-priority project for the region,” said Denise Blackwell, who chairs the board for the Capital Regional Hospital District, which is overseeing the planning and consultation process. Blackwell said the property will continue to be used for a health-care facility. “So for example we could have an urgent primary care centre on the main floor like we have out in Langford, or maybe a pharmacy, and then have care beds up above.”
Future use of the four-acre property now home to Oak Bay Lodge, which is expected to be demolished, is up for discussion at two virtual open houses this month. Built in 1970, the 235-bed facility. . .
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