UPCOMING EVENTS
Public Hearing
Tuesday, May 21st, 2024
6:30 p.m. in R.M. of Edenwold Council Chambers
Council has given first reading to Bylaw 2024-03, which proposes the following text amendments to the Zoning Bylaw:
- Add garage suites as a discretionary use in R1 - Urban Residential 1 and R2 - Urban Residential 2 zones, which applies to Emerald Park;
- Add secondary suites as a discretionary use in the R2 - Urban Residential 2 zone; and
- Correct obsolete references to The Uniform Building and Accessibility Standards Act and Regulations, which has been repealed and replaced by The Construction Codes Act and The Building Code Regulations.
Bylaw 2024-03 Frequently Asked Questions
If you have any questions, or you would like to submit formal written comments to be considered at the public hearing, please contact:
Jessica Mitchell
Senior Planner, RM of Edenwold
306-540-5600
jessica-mitchell@edenwold-sk.ca
RECENT EVENTS
Tuesday, January 16th, 2024 Open House
6:30 PM - 8:30 pm Open House, Dust Control Policy
Intent: To hear input from our ratepayers regarding the 2024 Dust Control Policy in the RM.
There were 38 written comments provided at the event:
‘A Summary of What We Heard’
- Dust control and the method of dust control is applied, directly affects the quality of life for rural ratepayers, including health, wear/tear/corrosion on vehicles, as well as safety issues.
- Dissatisfaction with the shift from a 50/50 cost-sharing arrangement to effectively an 80-20 split, as well as the custom work rates, citing it as a significant increase, and affordability as a key concern.
- Causes of dust are not the result of rural ratepayer’ actions but they are having to pay for it. As the rural part of the municipality, they feel they should not bear the additional cost, particularly when they are not causing the dust, but rather the increased traffic/type of traffic for which they are not responsible for.
- Considerations for alternative methods of dust control including looking at other research, exploring alternative methods for dust control, beyond that which we normally do, including different products and using vegetation to reduce dust.
- Alternative approaches to negating the cost and affect to rural ratepayers included having heavy haul users pay more for dust control, different cost approaches to dust control on over-dimensional roads, use of more environmentally friendly alternatives to dust control, reduction in speed, and use of proactive traffic counts to establish dust control parameters.