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By Susan McNeil

City Hall

P.A. council set to discuss Cloverdale Road resurfacing and empty lot taxes

Oct 3, 2023 | 6:00 AM

Upgrades to Cloverdale Road and the taxes charged to empty lots make up most of the list of things Prince Albert’s council will discuss on Tuesday.

Starting with Cloverdale, the proposed upgrades will cost about $65,000 if council chooses to go ahead with the suggested asphalt millings.

The road connects Highway 55 to the Pulp Haul Road and runs just under 11 km, but most of that is in the RM of Buckland.

Putting milling on the road is a means of dust control for the gravel that is there now.

Staff are asking council to send the project to upcoming budget discussions but are only suggesting that upgrades happen to the part of the road that runs through parcels designated country residential.

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The other item of interest is a proposal to provide another incentive for owners of vacant parcels to do something with their lots.

About 221 properties in the city are considered vacant but another 139 are owned by the city.

For the 2022 tax year, the city implemented a base tax of $1,600/lot which has earned them an extra $146,000.

Staff now want council to put that money into another incentive to build by giving a $10,000 grant to developers of some of the lots.

City-owned properties would not qualify, nor would privately owned ones that have been vacant for less than three years.

Council meets at 4:00 pm at City Hall.

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