Parkland County administration unveiled a new web tool recently designed to give area residents an efficient way of searching County bylaws.
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New land-use bylaw nearing completion
Step-by-step the city is getting closer to finalizing its land- use bylaw.
The city’s committee of a whole spent about two hours amending and discussing the bylaw at a meeting Tuesday.
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Council approves tax increase
A selection of bylaws was brought to the table at council May 13, with council starting things off with approval of the Annual Tax Rate Bylaw.
The bylaw, which will see an average municipal tax increase of 6.2 per cent, was carried through unanimously. The jump will cover the increasing cost of fire services and the 8.17 per cent increase in education taxes.
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Chamber gives OK to landuse changes
The Chamber of Commerce gave its thumbs up to the City’s proposed changes to the Landuse Bylaw, objecting only to minor technical issues, after more than a year of discussions and rewrites of the 104-page document that regulates development in the Medicine Hat.
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Land use bylaw tabled for second reading
Bill C10-13, more commonly referred to as the land use bylaw, may have passed its first reading unanimously, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t those who are unhappy with it.
Land developers showed up in droves to protest the bylaw in front of city council last week.
Their issue, to put it simply, was a matter of inches.
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Highly debated bylaws getting close to finish
Put on a pot of coffee draft copies of two mammoth bylaws are set to enter the final stages of public debate today.
The 181-page Off-site Levy Bylaw and 104-page Land-use Bylaw will be introduced at City Hall today at the Development and Infrastructure committee and the Municipal Planning Commission, respectively.
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Town explores new parking restrictions
Bylaw enforcement staff will begin investigating ways to extend the parking restrictions on recreation vehicles (RVs) to bulky industrial trailers and other offsite storage facilities after town council unanimously approved the directive last Monday.
Coun. Don Moore said the move is a necessary step to resolve the safety issues posed by hefty trailers indefinitely parking in tight residential areas. He says their massive frames haphazardly block sightlines for other drivers pulling out of their driveways.
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Leduc County council briefs
After the Mad Hatter’s Musical Festival caused complaints from Leduc County residents and resulted in a hefty fine for organizers in August 2012, the county presented a proposed concert and special events bylaw in response to the incident to council during a meeting on Mar. 5.
Clarence Nelson, director of enforcement services, presented the bylaw to council.
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Council to consider permanent options for urban chickens
Backyard chickens may be here to stay.
On Tuesday, Red Deer city council will consider starting a formal urban chicken project, a bylaw to allow up to four chickens per household, a bylaw that prohibits backyard chickens or explore legal options to allow chickens as a permitted accessory use.
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Pair of land use bylaws addressed during council
Cochrane council addressed two land use bylaws during their Jan. 28 meeting.
The first redesignated 29 existing residential lots on Heartland Way from high-density, multi-unit dwellings to single, detached.
The approval of this bylaw corrected a previous error within the Heartland neighbourhood.
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