CREMONA – The Village of Cremona council has approved a new bylaw aimed at correcting addressing concerns in the municipality. The move came during the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.
“Irregularities have been found with some addresses within the village,” administration said in a briefing note to council. “While trying to sort out the addressing number sequences, (administration) found that there is no addressing bylaw to provide guidance and therefore is now bringing a bylaw to council addressing the numbering of parcels in the village.
“The addresses that were not in order have been sent letters informing them of the change with copies going to emergency services including ambulance, FORTIS and ATCO Gas, the post office and the water operator for the village.”
Councillors passed all three readings of the new Addressing Bylaw 486-18.
The bylaw authorizes the CAO to assign numbers, in an orderly manner, to parcels of land and buildings, and units and sub-units within a building, and to revise such number from time to time.
The owner of the property on which a structure has been erected shall cause the number assigned to the property to be displayed at all times, at a location plainly visible from the roadway to which the property is addressed.
As well, the number must be large enough in size to be plainly visible from the roadway and shall be visible at all times in a conspicuous manner.
Assessed properties classified
Meanwhile, council passed a bylaw designed to provide for classification of assessed properties.
The Village of Cremona Classification of Assessed Property Bylaw 487-18 received first, second and third reading at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.
“The municipal accountability program report done by Municipal Affairs stated that the village required a bylaw that provides for the classification of assessed property for the purpose of establishing tax rates against different classes of assessed property,” administration said.
Under the bylaw, assessed property in the village will be classified as follows:
- residential
- residential-vacant
- residential-annexed
- farmland
- farmland-annexed
- commercial
- commercial-vacant
- federal grants-in-lieu – non residential
- designated industrial property
- linear
The bylaw includes a further classification of residential property, with various subclasses including single dwellings, semi-detached dwellings, duplexes, triplexes, fourplexes, manufactured homes, mobile homes or modular homes, manufactured home parks or mobile home parks, townhouses or rowhouses whether under condominium plan or otherwise, farm buildings, vacant residential.
The complete bylaw is available on the village’s website.
Development authority clarified
Council also passed a bylaw establishing an updated development authority for the municipality.
The move also came by way of motions at the recent regularly scheduled council meeting.
“The current development authority (bylaw 299-95) is outdated and needs to be brought back to council for updating,” said administration.
“The development authority bylaw is needed to clarify who is the development authority in accordance with the land use bylaw and the municipal planning commission bylaw.”
Under the updated bylaw, the development authority is the person or persons appointed by resolution of council as the development officer pursuant to the land use bylaw, and the municipal planning commission established by bylaw.
The development authority has “those powers and duties as set out in the Municipal Government Act, any regulations made thereunder and as further set out in the land use bylaw and the municipal planning commission bylaw.
“The powers and duties of the authority may be exercised by any one of the individuals appointed as development officer or by the commission where so set out in the land use bylaw and the municipal planning commission bylaw.”
The former Development Authority Bylaw N. 299-95 was also repealed.
