The Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs will hold its 2025 Annual General Meeting on Wednesday, April 30, 2025 at 7 pm at the Cordova Bay 55+ Centre, 5238 Cordova Bay Road, next to the Elementary School.

Guest Speaker is Saanich Mayor, Dean Murdock. Please come!

They have allowed about 15 minutes for the Mayor to speak to local transit and road safety issues, and then about 15 minutes for questions from the attendees.   

The Aragon 1165-unit proposal is ALL about local and road safety issues!

YOU DO NOT need to be a CBA member to come to this meeting. Only to vote at the AGM.

You can join at the membership table at the door, but it is suggested to join beforehand to avoid a possible traffic jam. You can join through this email here – membership@cbaca.ca.

A show of force by residents will go a long way in communicating to the Mayor, Saanich and Aragon, that this development is NOT okay with our community!

Please be prepared with some questions for our Mayor!

Here are a few traffic related questions below that we have come up with, but please I encourage all of you to have your own prepared, or because of limited time, we can just concentrate on these below.

Since the Mayor will be addressing local transit and road safety issues Wednesday night, it would be good to know if Saanich is planning for an increase of approximately 25% in traffic issues with the current proposal of the Aragon development for 1165 units.

·        The proposed density could introduce over 1,500 new vehicles and more than 7,000 additional daily car trips. This is on top of all the other development now and into the near future. What are Saanich’ s plans for this?

·        Since density drives traffic/transit and road safety issues …would Mayor and Council be willing to ‘cap’ the density for the Aragon development at a more reasonable rate? 

·        It is important for Saanich Staff to note that the Aragon development should they be permitted to have 1165 units at the Trio Lands will produce an increase in population to Cordova Bay of approximately 25% all in one 26-acre dead end site that only has access onto one road…Cordova Bay Road.  And that the access points on that short stretch of Cordova Bay Road are especially problematic by the nature of the road itself being very narrow, with side ditches and no sidewalks, and on a curved hill! How is Saanich planning to address that critically dangerous road safety issue? 

·        Saanich is also currently facing financial challenges replacing existing /aged-out infrastructure …will taxpayers be willing to assume the huge increases in taxes needed to satisfy Aragon’s request to overpopulate this dead-end piece of property? 

The only winners here are Aragon who stand to make millions of dollars in profits from the sale of these units.  This Vancouver developer has no responsibility for infrastructure costs outside the development itself and would appear to have no moral conscience regarding the destruction of this insane density will bring to our beautiful Cordova Bay community.  Saanich needs to address the Aragon development with Cordova Bay residents upon receiving the development application and we all need to be clear how this development will unfold and what our elected officials will do to protect us from a greedy developer who appears to have only one goal …PROFIT! 

                                       See you all at the AGM this Wednesday!