Rocky View County (RVC) council made public its 2011 Year End Report on April 24, and the results of the audit show increases in financial assets as well as the total cost of many key RVC initiatives.
Overall revenue from net municipal taxes collected in 2011 only decreased $243,000 in the county for a total of $47,126,536, and the Countyís total revenue increased by more than $5 million from 2010 for a total of $73,250,045.
The Countyís 12,640-acre annexation with the City of Airdrie transferred $756,460 in debt for road upgrades from RVC and the value of annexed tangible capital assets will be determined in 2012.
The Countyís obligation according to the Alberta Protection and Enhancement Act is to pay for the post-closure monitoring of the Bragg Creek landfill site. The projectís fees include the final clay cover of the site, landscaping, as well as surface and ground water monitoring. The estimated total cost of the project is $202,329. Starting in 2012, RVC will begin paying five per cent of the total cost of the project each year.
CrossIron Mills expansion
Two new business developments, including a John Deere Dealership, can now go forward with RVC Councilís approval to amend a land-use bylaw for the area surrounding CrossIron Mills shopping centre.
Council voted unanimously to amend land use bylaw DC-109, which gave Highfield Investment Group (HIG) the ability to accommodate two clientsí interests in the land. The area of land located east of Balzac, where CrossIron Mills mall now sits, was required by DC-109 to provide a ìsuper regional shopping centre and a racing entertainment centre, surrounded by a mix of compatible commercial, industrial and institutional land uses.î The siteís 57-acre ìCell Bî area, west of Dwight McLellan Tr., was meant to be a ìpost-secondary education and commercial cell,î and HIG needed to amend the uses listed in DC-109 to accommodate the sale of the land.
B & A Planning Groupís Ken Venner said the slight amendments to the bylaw would allow HIG to complete the sale of a parcel of land to Agro to develop a John Deere dealership. HIG has also conditionally sold another parcel in Cell B to Verus Partners Ltd. for warehouse use. The United Farmerís Association owns a third parcel of land in Cell B.
Venner said some type of post-secondary education facility related to equine care was intended to be built on the site, but thus far his client ìhas no intent of doing that.î
