Parksville, British Columbia

Parksville is a beach town on the east coast of Vancouver Island, on the traditional territory of the Coast Salish Nations and home to the Snaw-Naw-As and Qualicum First Nations, in the Regional District of Nanaimo's Oceanside area next to Qualicum Beach. The City runs City Hall at the Parksville Civic and Technology Centre, 100 Jensen Avenue East, property taxes and twice-yearly metered water and sewer bills, its own well-and-river water system (with the Englishman River and Arrowsmith water services it shares with the regional district), the sewer pipes to the regional treatment plant, roads, an annual spring wood chipping program, Parksville Community Park and the beach, parks and sports fields, dog licences and bylaw compliance, building permits and business licences, five electric vehicle chargers and Parksville Fire Rescue. The Regional District of Nanaimo collects curbside garbage, recycling and green bins, runs the Church Road Transfer Station, the Oceanside recreation centres and the regional transit system; the Oceanside RCMP detachment polices the city; Emergency Management Oceanside is shared with Qualicum Beach; the library is the Vancouver Island Regional Library; health care is Island Health; schools are School District 69 Qualicum; and marriage licences, health cards and driver's licences are provincial.