Richard Froese
South Peace News
Big Lakes County has taken the first steps to consider redistricting agriculture property southeast of Kinuso to country residential.
At its regular meeting June 11, council gave first reading to amending Land-use Bylaw 08-2025.
Council received an application from Jon Miersma, of Highland Surveys, on behalf of landowners Howard and Melinda Tanghe to amend the bylaw by redistricting three acres within NE 4-73-9-W5 southeast of Kinuso to country residential (CR) from agriculture (AG), Pat Olansky, director of community services and planning, told council.
A public hearing is scheduled for July 9 at 1 p.m.
“The applicant concurrently applied to subdivide the three-acre parcel which contains a dwelling and shed,” Olansky said.
In accordance with the land-use bylaw, the minimum parcel area of a subdivision in the AG district is 16.2 hectares or 40 acres.
Section 3.5 (a) of the Municipal Development Plan limits the subdivision of agricultural land to a maximum of one parcel out of an unsubdivided quarter section.
“There is an existing subdivision on this quarter section that remained in the AG district, so it is necessary to redistrict the proposed parcel to the CR district,” Olansky said.