Former councillor Dean Murdock and incumbent Fred Haynes lock horns in radio debate
Saanich mayoral candidate Dean Murdock accused incumbent Fred Haynes of foot-dragging on garden suites, affordable housing and a citizens assembly on amalgamation in a fiery debate on Thursday.
Murdock said he experienced as a councillor how “traumatic” the firing of a previous CAO was to the organization, arguing that taxpayers expect council and staff to co-operate and that “adults can work together to get the job done.” Murdock said in 2021, Saanich delivered fewer than half of its targeted number of new homes in the community, suggesting the municipality should use its zoning tools to create more affordable family-suitable homes, such as townhouses, duplexes and triplexes.
In the meantime, he said, council has worked on internal systems to deliver affordable homes by improving application processes, building up the IT system, and hiring a new director of planning. And while Haynes said he brought forward the garden suites proposal in 2016 and council recently asked staff to look into how to allow secondary suites and garden suites on the same property, Murdock said he had suggested garden suites two years earlier, in 2014.
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