The Town of Gibsons has advanced an elector approval process for a boundary extension. If 10 per cent of electors don’t write in to oppose the process, the extension will bring five properties into the Town of Gibson from the Sunshine Coast Regional District.
Back in October, council directed staff to send a request to the minister to extend the boundary of the municipality to include the following parcels:
- Lot 1, Except: Portion on plan BCP24851 Block 7 District Lot 682 Plan 14753 (Hough Road).
- The North 100 feet of the West 700 feet except: Part on Plan BCP24851 Block 6 District Lot 682 Plan 4779 (Hough Road).
- Lot 2 Block 7 District Lot 682 Plan 14753 (Pratt Road).
- Lot D Block 8 District Lot 682 Plan 18023 (Pratt Road).
- Lot 6 District lot 842 Group 1 New Westminster District Plan BCP19068 (Gospel Rock).
A staff report in the Oct meeting states the property owners requested to move into the Town of Gibsons and were interested in connecting to municipal services, specifically sanitary and water, to develop the sites to a higher potential.
In the alternative approval process (AAP), there are 4,014 eligible electors and if the town receives elector responses from less than 10 per cent of them by June 2 at 4 p.m., the AAP passes.
Information packages explaining the AAP process will be prepared before the process begins, and elector forms will be made available on the town's website and at town hall, said a staff report for the April 8 regular council meeting.
Before the province can consider a boundary extension, council must give notice of the proposed extension once in the BC Gazette, obtain approval of the electors of the municipality, and obtain the results of the elector approval process. Finally, if electors support the municipal boundary extension proposal, the town must provide the ministry with a second council resolution confirming the request to the minister to extend the boundary.
Council unanimously gave approval for the AAP to proceed.
Jordan Copp is the Coast Reporter’s civic and Indigenous affairs reporter. This reporting beat is made possible by the Local Journalism Initiative.
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