Reeve Law says cannabis legislation to remain ‘work-in-progress’ for Lacombe County in 2019

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“We have 15 of those, so we’re working on four of them,” states Law. “We’re actually working on a fifth. We’re doing an inter-municipal development plan with Sylvan Lake, Red Deer County, in the summer villages around, so that’s a large group we’re working on.”

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In addition, Lacombe County has also started a small agricultural plastics recycling program with both Red Deer County and Ponoka County regarding grain bag recycling, a program Law says is going over better than expected.

Law also points-out The County’s planning department was recognized for its ‘innovative public engagement’ over the last two years regarding their Municipal Development Plan and Land Use Bylaw review.

In terms of challenges however, Law anticipates cannabis legislation, its accompanying land use policies and development permit applications on productions facilities to be their biggest challenge in the New Year.

“Dealing with the permits, the neighbours, the concerns and everything that comes along with it,” she explains. “Unfortunately, when that legislation came from the federal and then the provincial, there’s no way that we can make it so onerous that they cannot be within Lacombe County. So what we have to work with is try to come up with as best of a balance that we can.”

Elsewhere, continued economic uncertainty will remain a challenge for The County as well according to Law.

“It’s challenging all over, it’s no different for any municipality within the province,” she exclaims. “Everybody is finding the challenges in it. The assessment for some is going down, the loss of the oil companies and different things on that, so it’s trying to find that balance to still provide services that we do and maintain expectations but not be a hardship on ratepayers.”

Finally, another area of concern says Law is the political uncertainty caused from both federal and provincial elections expected to take place in 2019.

“Really right now what we’ve done is we’ve set our interim budget,” states Law. “We have to move forward, we have to keep going. We will continue to work with our MLA’s and MP’s that are our representatives, whoever is in there.”