Sunday June 29, 2025 | LANGFORD, BC
by Mary P Brooke | Island Social Trends
Langford residents have three new opportunities to provide public input on key aspects of developing the municipality for the years ahead.
Residents can provide input at Let’s Chat Langford.
- Parking Bylaw Modernization Survey – online survey to 11:59 pm July 14, 2025.
- Vehicle and bicycle parking habits, parking experiences, on-street parking, off-street parking.
- Langford’s Environmental Development Permit Area – online survey to end of day July 7, 2025.
- Natural areas and natural features.
- identify places you value, places where you’d like to see more protection, and places where development has integrated nature in a positive way.
- Natural areas or features that should be prioritized for protection, how well Langford is doing at achieving important community development goals while protecting the environment, and what is working or not working with the current approach.
- Arts and Culture Strategy – online survey to end of day Aug 17, 2025.
- Grow a strong, vibrant arts and culture scene, one that reflects who we are and welcomes everyone.
- It will guide how we support artists, host events, and create spaces that bring people together through creativity.
Population growth:
The key context for the series of City of Langford public input exercises is population growth.
Steady population growth and density is expected over the next 25 years or so, from a current population of around 55,000 to at least 100,000.
Population growth requires expanded supports of all sorts of infrastructure both physical (e.g. housing, roads, sewers) and socio-cultural (recreation facilities, social programs).
While schools are under the jurisdiction of school districts, municipalities usually cooperate with school districts to provide the educational infrastructure (i.e. schools and associated facilities) that is required by growing communities.
Likewise, municipalities generally collaborate with the province on a range of services that end up being delivered by municipalities, including highways and even some aspects of health care.
Growing food in natural spaces is a key consideration for modern cities given the real impacts of economic challenge and the potential impacts of climate or other emergencies.
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