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objectid
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britishcolumbia_saanich
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format
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record
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Settlement Name
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Saanich
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Has Policy?
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Yes
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Policy
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Parks Naming Policy: 1. In general: Neighbourhood parks shall be named after an adjacent street. Community parks shall be named after an adjacent street or geographic feature. Municipal parks shall be named after a geographical feature, a historically significant individual, or a commemorative event. 2. Significant features within a park may be named separately based on a recommendation from a community organization, reviewed by the Parks, Trails and Recreation Advisory Committee, and approved by Council. 3. Input will be sought from related community organizations for naming new Community and Municipal parks. 4. Procedurally, all names for new parks or requests to change names of existing parks are to be considered by the Parks, Trails and Recreation Advisory Committee with a subsequent recommendation to Council which has the final authority to name or rename the park.
Quote from email: “In addition, though not formally in the policy, we reach out to local First Nation groups as well as part of reviewing names of items and have worked as part of our decolonization efforts in returning names to the traditional First Nation name versus the assigned name.”
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Policy Score
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78
