As of the third quarter Cochrane has a projected budget surplus of $256,000 after paying for cost overruns.
Most of this money came from building permit revenues from developers, which amounted to $500,000, and has been used to deal with cost overruns in areas like the town’s engineering, planning and legal departments ($15,000; $75,000 and $70,000 respectively) plus $170,000 in increased costs for third party inspectors.
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During the Town of Stony Plain’s final 2014 budget meeting on Nov. 6, council increased the potential tax levy.
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CALGARY – Canada Lands Company is partnering with Embassy Bosa Inc. to develop a mixed-use town centre at the Currie Barracks in Calgary, the Herald has learned.
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CNBC’s Diana Olick looks into the results of a survey from realtor.com and highlights housing markets that are seeing the biggest recovery.
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The joke at the Blackfalds council meeting on Tuesday was that if you live in the town and have a two year old, he or she will have a lot of friends, being that there are now 180 so-aged tykes in the town. But with another year of unprecedented growth in the community, all residents should find it increasingly easy to find someone of a similar vintage around town, no matter one’s age.
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After council met for the first time since the flood, some big issues were discussed and resolved to help move along the recovery process for the town of High River.
One of the items discussed was whether or not the fee should be waived for out of town businesses to obtain a municipal license.
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The Town of Okotoks is taking its legal fight over the Mike Holmes-led Wind Walk development to Canada’s highest court.
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The Town of Stony Plain has released its 2012 Annual Report, which is intended to provide residents, businesses and other stakeholders with detailed information about the Town’s accomplishments, its financial condition and key statistics from the past year.
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The Town of Cochrane is taking a ‘collective’ approach when it comes to how the look and feel of the downtown core will mature going into the future.
Setting up shop until the end of February, town staff are hoping residents pay a visit to their temporary downtown location to provide their input into what they want to see developed in and around the Quarry site, and how that will be integrated into historic downtown.
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