MOUNTAIN VIEW COUNTY - About 30 people attended an open house at the Olds Golf Club on May 22 to hear details about a proposed development directly south of the course, say officials.
The Netook North country residential and light industrial commercial development would be located north of Highway 27 and west of Range Road 12, at SE 1/4-3-33-1 W5.
The concept plan proposes 45 county residential (R-CR1) lots, each greater than two acres.
It would also include approximately 55 acres industrial/commercial area adjacent to Highway 27.
The proposal includes a dozen industrial/commercial lots, each of about 3.7 to four acres in size. Those lots would be located immediately north of Highway 27.
Working on behalf of owners Abe Neufeld, 1273927 Alberta Ltd. (Al and John Froese), and 404048 Alberta Ltd. (Greg Brown), B&A is putting together the concept plan, land use redesignation and subdivision applications for the project.
B&A is a planning and consulting firm based in Calgary.
Project manager and part owner Greg Brown told the Albertan that written comments gathered at the May 22 open house will now be reviewed.
“Hopefully that will be done in the next five or six weeks; we are targeting it before July 1,” Brown said. “The application is for a concept plan for the entire quarter section, as well as land use designation and subdivision plan for the first phase of the development.
“We haven’t really decided yet on the size of Phase 1. We are going to decide that in the next few weeks, before we make the applications.”
The developers hope to have Mountain View County’s approval of the concept plan by the winter of 2024-25, he said.
“Then we’d have to go through engineering approvals. We hope that if everything goes well, construction would be starting late spring or summer of 2025.
“I don’t think anyone would be living there, I would guess, until 2026.”
Work is ongoing on the seven background studies that are needed a part of the overall application process, he said.
