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By Mat Barrett

Creekside Acres

Council tables bylaw changes to next meeting

Mar 13, 2019 | 3:42 PM

Residents of Creekside Acres in Melfort, and the developer of the neighborhood are going to have to wait a bit more to learnt he outcome of some new proposed bylaw changes.

On Monday, March 11, at Melfort’s regular council meeting, two bylaw changes were presented. The first was to sell dedicated lands connected to some vacant lots in the Creekside Acres neighborhood, making the lot bigger. The second change was to then re-zone those sections of municipal reserve to class it as residential one. That would allow the developer to subdivide the lots, while still keeping the sizes a bit bigger.

However, residents in the area are against the subdivision of that land, due to the fact that they were promised “acreage living” when they first bought the properties, and having a subdivision would change that. Some residents even noted that it could devalue their property.

Mayor Rick Lang said council really doesn’t play a massive role in the disagreement.

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“Really what this is, more than anything else, is an issue between the residents who have bought property, and the developer,” Lang told northeastNOW. “That’s probably where it should be solved, in a sense.”

At a prior council meeting, the developer initially wanted to simply subdivide the land and start new developments. Residents came to that meeting and voiced their displeasure, leading to that motion to be defeated.

At Monday’s meeting, council decided to table both motions, hoping to debate amongst them, and then vote at the next meeting. They also hope to have the developer in attendance at that meeting (they were not at the meeting on Monday) to get their view on the situation.

Lang said councillors have to consider a couple things before they vote.

“Are the rules being followed from a legal point of view?” he said. “Now, whether or not there is an agreement between the developer and the residents that he sold the land to, what was promised, what wasn’t promised, that’s between the residents and the developer. In our perfect world, what we would like to see is a compromise somewhere that is developed that would work for both parties.”

Council hopes to be able to vote on the situation at the next regular meeting on April 15.

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