Task Forces
The Central Saanich Community Association (CSCA) forms a short term Task Force to investigate and make recommendations concerning issues important to the Central Saanich Community. The recommendations are presented to council for their consideration.
The current Central Saanich bylaw regarding secondary suites needs to be updated (to the current provincial standard). There are many underground, non-conforming secondary suites within Central Saanich that would benefit by being made legitimate – safety inspection, parking regulations for neighbours and control of density and control of impact on local municipal infrastructure. Most landlords would prefer to have a legal suite and conform to all reasonable bylaws. Tenants would have the protection of proper regulations.
The CSCA formed the Single Use Check-out Plastic Bag Task Force to examine and make recommendations for Central Saanich to follow the lead of Victoria and Saanich in banning single-use plastic checkout bags which would resulting in reduce plastic pollution, plastic bag litter and waste in our community.
The CSCA formed the Electric Cars Task Force to examine and recommend improvements within Central Saanich for the charging of electric cars.
The CSCA formed the Community Garden Task Force to look at options and recommendations for a community garden with in Central Saanich.
Active On-Going Activities
The Central Saanich Community Association (CSCA) forms a short term Task Force to investigate and make recommendations concerning issues important to the Central Saanich Community. Sometimes there is a need to continue to monitor the recommendations from Task Force with Council and for this the CSCA assigns a specific "Activity".
ACTIVE TRANSPORTATION
This recently established task force is focused on gathering information on municipal road safety context, other jurisdiction’s best practices, tools, and resources. They will reach out to organizations with similar goals to align mandates on this issue, raise awareness of the issue during the upcoming budget processes, and promote the development of an active transportation plan, an implementation plan and ensure that road safety/active transportation is included within the Official community plan, strategic plan and annual municipal budget.