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Click here to read our latest newsletter. (Requires Acrobat Reader) LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT
July 3,2003
2. All four contractors attended an on-site review and inspection June
27,
2003, conducted by our architect, Phil Chang.
3. The appropriate documentation has now been filed with the City of
Victoria to amend the letter of understanding with the City regarding
upgrading of Kings Road and the appointment of our arborist, Mr Jeremy
Guy.
4. The Oaklands Community Association has been updated and has written
a
letter of approval.
5. The final floor plans have been reviewed and agreed by the Child
Centre
Coordinator and Team Leaders and by the CRD Licensing Authority.
6. The cost estimates for the plans are being prepared by TBKG
Consultants
and will be reviewed by the project team July 4, 2004.
7. The construction bids from the four contractors will be received at
the
Advanced Architecture office on July 31, 2003.
8. The selection of the final contractor will be completed and approved
in
early August and the neighbourhood will be advised as to the
construction
schedule (blasting, etc).
9. All construction traffic will be from Hillside Avenue. It is
planned
that no construction traffic will use Empire Street or Kings Road.
10. Ground breaking and an appropriate ceremony will be scheduled for
later
in August 2003.
May 22, 2003
The pace of activity for the new Child Care Centre has quickened considerably during the last two weeks and we are now able to report:
May 16,2003
1. The plans for the new building were advanced to a public hearing by
the
City of Victoria council at its meeting of April 3, 2003. The date for
this
meeting has not been set, but we hope it will be in early May so that
we can
maintain our initial time schedule.
Our New Child Care Centre Project Update
The siting of the new building, elevations, interior design, exterior appearance, etc. have now been finalized and submitted to the City of Victoria and the provincial licensing authorities for approval. The City of Victoria Planning Committee is scheduled to review our plans at its March 24, 2003 meeting. We are hopeful that the plans will then be passed on to the City Council for approval by the end of April, 2003.
The plans have been reviewed by the Quantity Surveyors and the cost projections are within the budget available for the project. Construction is scheduled to begin by September 2003 and the construction activity will access the property from Hillside Avenue.
Please keep in touch with our web site for ongoing news and information in the development of our new Child Care Centre.
Geoff Harris
In December 2001 the Cridge Centre for the Family submitted to the City of Victoria plans for development of its property, the legal description of which is described above. This submission was approved by the City of Victoria but subsequently the Cridge Centre discovered that the plans were far beyond its fiscal abilities and were forced to reconsider and develop plans that would achieve all that was hoped for but within the fiscal restraints within which we had to operate and not require rezoning application. The Cridge Centre hired a new architect, Mr. Phil Chang, who had had previous experience with our property through the development of the Oakwinds housing complex which is part of the overall Cridge property. The original Oakwinds designs were based on plans that had been carefully studied and approved by the City for an overall land development with an emphasis on the entrance, traffic flow and servicing being from Hillside and to that end easements were approved on the services and roadway of the Oakwinds project allowing for future use by the Cridge Centre in its development Based on this re-appreciation of our development plans, the location for the new proposed child care centre for which the Cridge Centre had received two major foundation donations was re-sited to an area adjacent to the roadway off Hillside. This proposed relocation not only has significant cost savings in that there is easier access to services and traffic flow, but eliminates completely the neighbours’ concern of additional traffic on Empire Street and Kings Road, as well as a new road off Cook Street. The new proposed child care centre also has been redesigned to take a far smaller footprint on the site thus allowing for less usage of the parkland garry oak area. By relocating the proposed child care centre, we have also been able to retain the existing playground area for the child care population. The existing playground area is considered a large and well-developed playground. Our future development following the construction of the new child care centre would also initially be along the Hillside roadway area and would provide for interior courtyard intermixed with grassland, green area and the garry oak parks within the development interior, thus forming the village centre as an “oasis” of peace with the Hillside traffic being blocked out with the barrier of development. We are proceeding to finalize the development of the new child care centre and plan to have a submission on this to the City by March of this year. The overall development will however take a little longer since we are very keen to ensure full public involvement and to receive full input from both the City and the local community. We have met with the community on two occasions (December 2002 and January 2003) and further community meetings in association with the Oaklands Community Association are planned for February 13th and subsequent dates. We wish to have this full consultation prior to completion of the overall development we would be proposing for the site and are hopeful that this can be completed by mid year. To enable both the community, the City and others who are interested in the development of the Cridge Centre property we have set aside this page on our website where we intend to issue monthly updates including both narrative and graphic information. The Cridge Centre remains steadfast in its wish to develop an overall Cridge village within the property and is very conscious of its long term history and future commitment to the community. January 27, 2003
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The
Cridge Centre for the Family was enormously proud to share the spotlight
with the Butchart Gardens this year when the Greater Victoria Chamber
of Commerce declared a tie in voting and awarded both the Lifetime Achievement
Award. In celebrating their 100th anniversary in 2004 The Gardens share
a long history in Greater Victoria with The Cridge, (131 years old in
2004). Indeed, Jennie Butchart was an avid supporter of the Orphanage
and often had children out to the Gardens. Here, Cridge President Mike
Reynolds (right) accepts the award from the presenter with Jennie Butchart’s
great-granddaughter and current Garden owner, Robin Ross Clarke (left).
