Mountain Resort Municipalities

WHEREAS the Community Services Statutes Amendment Act, 2007, sections 16 and 17 allow the provincial government to establish an area that is not a mountain resort improvement district and potentially has no residents and no development, as a new Mountain Resort Municipality, and allow the Province to appoint the council and direct the development decisions of that council through letters patent and exemptions from the Community Charter; AND WHEREAS a Mountain Resort Municipality may never grow to have a large enough permanent population to have an elected council, and could remain an unelected and provincially and developer controlled municipality forever: THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that UBCM oppose the concept of an undemocratic municipality controlled by the Province and developer, and urge the Province to consult with UBCM on creating reasonable criteria to guide the establishment of new Mountain Resort Municipalities.