Capital Regional District, British Columbia
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The Capital Regional District (CRD) is a sub-provincial administrative district encompassing the southern tip of Vancouver Island and the southern Gulf Islands: (Saltspring, Galiano, Pender, Saturna, Mayne), and several smaller islands. On Vancouver Island, the CRD encompasses the thirteen municipalities of Greater Victoria, the Juan de Fuca Electoral Area (including the unorganized districts of East Sooke, Port Renfrew, Jordan River, and the southern Malahat). Its administrative locus is in the City of Victoria.
The CRD is one of several regional districts in British Columbia and has a population of about 350,000. Its responsibilities include providing funding for non-profit arts groups, administering the water supply, providing public health services, and overseeing thirty regional parks, trails, and regional park reserves encompassing over 10,000 ha. The CRD can also pass bylaws that are binding in its member municipalities. These include a controversial smoking ban in all public places, first introduced in 1996.
The CRD assumes resposnibilities ordinarily undertaken by municipalities in unorganized districts of the CRD. These responsibilities include such things as animal control, building inspection, fire protection, and parking and bylaw enforcement. Some of the region's municipalities avail themselves of some of these services in a contractual arrangement with the CRD.
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| Members of the Capital Regional District | |
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Municipalities: Central Saanich | Colwood | Esquimalt | Highlands | Langford | Metchosin | North Saanich | Oak Bay | Saanich | Sidney | Sooke | Victoria | View Royal
Electoral areas: B & D (Juan de Fuca) | F (Salt Spring Island) | G (Southern Gulf Islands) | |
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| British Columbia |
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| Regional Districts | Alberni-Clayoquot - Bulkley-Nechako - Capital - Cariboo - Central Coast - Central Kootenay - Central Okanagan - Columbia-Shuswap - Comox-Strathcona - Cowichan Valley - East Kootenay - Fraser Valley - Fraser-Fort George - Greater Vancouver - Kitimat-Stikine - Kootenay Boundary - Mount Waddington - Nanaimo - North Okanagan - Northern Rockies - Okanagan-Similkameen - Peace River - Powell River - Skeena-Queen Charlotte - Squamish-Lillooet - Stikine - Sunshine Coast - Thompson-Nicola |
| Communities over 100,000 | Abbotsford - Burnaby - Coquitlam - Delta - Kelowna - Richmond - Saanich - Surrey - Vancouver |
| 70,000-100,000 | Chilliwack - Kamloops - Langley Township - Maple Ridge - Nanaimo - District of North Vancouver - Prince George - Victoria |
| Other major communities | Campbell River - Cranbrook - Fort St. John - Mission - New Westminster - City of North Vancouver - Penticton - Port Coquitlam - Port Moody - Vernon |
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