131-139 Menzies St Development Proposal

The timeline follows below:

January 10^th 2025: Revised plans posted on Development tracker
October 1^st 2024: Revised plans and Developer’s letter to the City posted on Development tracker
July 4^th and 24^th 2024: Letters sent to Geric regarding the unkempt state of the properties
June 13^th 2024: Revised plans and Developer’s letter to the City posted on Development tracker
April 9^th 2024: Revised plans and Developer’s letter to the City posted on Development tracker
March 13^th 2024: Developer presentation of revised plans (not a CALUC)
January 9th 2024: Revised plans posted on Development tracker
June 14th 2023: CALUC meeting for revised plans
May 2023: Revised plans posted on Development tracker
January 2023: There is a project delay so there will not be a February CALUC
December 14^th 2022: 131-139 Update discussion (not a CALUC)
July 13^th 2022: Menzies St. CALUC meeting
June 10^th & 27^th 2022: Application added to the Development Tracker
June 9^th 2022: Committee of the Whole meeting
June 7^th2022: Councillor Stephen Andrew hosts a Zoom meeting
November 12^th 2021: The BC Assessment lists the Menzies properties as sold
November 10^th 2021: The Montreal/Quebec tower CALUC meeting

March 13th 2024: Zoom recording of developer presentation

Click here for the developer’s presentation

January 9th 2024: Revised plans posted on Development tracker

Click here to access the Development Tracker

June 14th 2023 JBNA CALUC Meeting

Zoom Video

Presentation Slides

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Letters to the City – (1) Summary & (2) Minutes and Zoom Chat

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May 29th 2023 Revised plans posted on the Development Tracker

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The developer has also created a website for the project: https://www.menziesliving.ca/

December 14th 2022 1131-139 Update discussion (not a CALUC)

Watch the video of the meeting here – The Menzies presentation starts at 59:30

November 2022

This development is no longer linked to the Montreal/Quebec/Kingston development.

July 13th 2022 CALUC meeting

The CALUC meeting was held on July 13^th .Below are:

Letter to the City containing both the meeting summary and the Questions and Answers
The video of the Zoom meeting
The presentation slides

Letter to the City

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Revised slides submitted after the presentation

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June 10th & 27th 2022 Application added to the City of Victoria Development Tracker

View the documents submitted to the City here

June 9th 2022 Committee of the Whole meeting

Read the background to the motion here. Click on the images below to see the original and the amended motion.

The amendment proposed by Stephen Andrew is passed; there will now be a community meeting on July 13th. A video of this segment of the 9^thJune meeting follows:

June 7th 2022 Councillor Stephen Andrew hosts a Zoom Meeting

June 3, 2022: Mayor Helps has forwarded a motion for consideration and ratification by Council next week. The motion proposes the co-mingling of the Montreal/Kingston/Quebec “Tower” proposal and the redevelopment of 131/135/139 Menzies and the waiving of the Community Meeting for the Menzies project. Councillor Liaison Stephen Andrew wishes to seek your views on this, in a timely manner. To facilitate opportunities for residents to speak to him, prior to Mayor and Council’s decision on this matter.

Letter sent by Stephen Andrew announcing meeting here.