STATEMENT FROM MITCHELL HUBER, REEVE – RM OF EDENWOLD
After four years, the annexation hanging over the RM of Edenwold is now over.
The Saskatchewan Municipal Board (SMB) firmly rejected the Municipal Boundary Alteration Application by White City for almost 4000 acres of RM land, including all of Emerald Park.
Emerald Park residents and the entire RM can be assured that we will continue providing quality services with the lower tax rates our ratepayers have come to enjoy.
With this legal dispute now over, we would sincerely like to offer White City success with its ongoing plans to develop its town centre.
With cooperation, both municipalities can prosper and be good partners to all the communities in the region.
SMB DECISION APPLICATION MBC 2019-0001.1 - HIGHLIGHTS:
"The Town has not demonstrated a need to annex land to stop the development next to its borders."
"We are troubled by the Town seeking to annex land that it expressly said it would not pursue under the 2015 consensual annexation agreement."
"We have concluded that annexation of the developed lands is sought only for financial reasons rather than to enable future growth of the Town."
UPDATE: 23 May, 2023
The Court of Appeal grants White City leave to appeal annexation decision.
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STATEMENT FROM MITCHELL HUBER, REEVE – RM OF EDENWOLD
After four years, the annexation hanging over the RM of Edenwold is now over.
The Saskatchewan Municipal Board (SMB) firmly rejected the Municipal Boundary Alteration Application by White City for almost 4000 acres of RM land, including all of Emerald Park.
Emerald Park residents and the entire RM can be assured that we will continue providing quality services with the lower tax rates our ratepayers have come to enjoy.
With this legal dispute now over, we would sincerely like to offer White City success with its ongoing plans to develop its town centre.
With cooperation, both municipalities can prosper and be good partners to all the communities in the region.
SMB DECISION APPLICATION MBC 2019-0001.1 - HIGHLIGHTS:
"The Town has not demonstrated a need to annex land to stop the development next to its borders."
"We are troubled by the Town seeking to annex land that it expressly said it would not pursue under the 2015 consensual annexation agreement."
"We have concluded that annexation of the developed lands is sought only for financial reasons rather than to enable future growth of the Town."
