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The City of Trail has released details on a mutual agreement that outlines the Silver City’s intent to expand its boundary into Teck-owned land in Area A. In a meeting on Wednesday with Area A, Fruitvale and Montrose, the City of Trail and Teck Trail Operations unveiled a plan that involves land, cash and tax concessions. “It involves 66 parcels (of land) in total,” said David Perehudoff, chief administrative officer for the city. “Including the land from the city’s current boundary, running south through Columbia Gardens to the international border.” Perehudoff explained that the general land assessments total $76,687,300 and there are eight residents living in the area. Included in the proposed boundary expansion are Teck’s Waneta Reload Facility and the Waneta Dam. “Those facilities are very important for Teck and our Trail operations and under this agreement framework, Teck is supportive of those facilities being included within the City of Trail,” said Richard Deane, Teck manager, environment, health and safety, and public affairs. “Our understanding is that now the City of Trail will be moving forward with the boundary expansion but there is a lot of details to work out especially around revenue sharing amongst Beaver Valley, Fruitvale, Montrose and Area A.” The Trail Times contacted a representative from the regional district who declined to comment until a formal press release is issued next week. Mayor Dieter Bogs addressed the concerns relating to Beaver Valley in a press release on Thursday. “This process will include the City of Trail negotiating a fair agreement with the Beaver Valley Parks and Recreation Service due to the revenue loss that regional service will experience should the area form part of the city,” said Bogs. The property taxes from these facilities are currently paid to the province of B.C., in the form of rural property taxes because the property in question is an unincorporated area, said Perehudoff. See TAX, Page 2
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Ministry of Transportation crews and equipment are working on the Highway 3B corner leading into Warfield in efforts to make the corner safer.
Crews tackle dangerous corner BY ART HARRISON Times Staff
The site of a fatal truck accident earlier this month is under construction. Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure crews are currently working on the corner on Highway 3B in Warfield where a transport truck crashed on May 3. “We’re trying to change this corner coming down from Rossland from what is referred to as a decreasing radius turn,
one that gets tighter and tighter as you come through the turn to more of a simple curve,” said site manager, John van der Holt. “If you’ve seen the larger trucks coming down through this, they frequently cross over the yellow line. We’re trying to eliminate that.” Van der Holt explained that the middle climbing lane will be eliminated and dedicated left hand turn slots marked out to facilitate easier and safer turns
off the highway. The work was slated to begin May 6 but was held back by common project delays and the May 3 accident. Van der Holt pointed out that the project was not begun as a result of the recent crash. “We’ve known for a long time that this was a problem area.” The project, originally scheduled to run from May 6 to June 6 is now anticipated to be completed in mid-June.
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