Town adds large Highway 4 lot to land inventory

By Ian MacKay

The town has added a large lot along Highway 4 to its inventory of available land.

The town received provincial approval of its plan to subdivide the lot adjacent to Seventh Avenue West.

“We bought it off the community church, we subdivided part of the lot for parking for the rink and now we can sell this as a lot,” Mayor Trevor Hay said during the April 20 council meeting.

“It’s big enough for a fourplex, duplex, something like that,” Hay said, later adding that the town has received inquiries from potential buyers.

The lot measures 24.87 metres along Seventh Avenue and 44.47 metres along the highway, said Amanda Bors, the acting chief administrator. It’s larger than most other vacant lots the town has, councillors heard.

A motel once stood there and recreational vehicles were parked there in recent years.

A letter from the Community Planning section of the province’s Government Relations Department contained a reminder that Crown corporations need to be contacted to mark the locations of underground telephone cables, power lines and natural gas pipelines servicing the lot “if any digging or excavating is to be done.”