Monday, November 4, 2024

Cariboo RD Area "D" 2024 Community Survey

Last month, I did a #CaribooRD Electoral Area "D" Community Survey for items to work on in 2025, for those living on or residing in:

* Soda Creek Road (past the City of Williams Lake municipal boundaries) 
* Mile 168 Road 
* Commodore Heights 
* Pine Valley 
* Fox Mountain 
* Wildwood 
* Deep Creek 
* Xat'sull First Nation (Deep Creek/Soda Creek Reserves) 
* Tyee Lake 
* Blue Lake 
* Soda Creek Valley 
* McLeese Lake/Duckworth Lake 
* Macalister 
* Marguerite 

A big THANK YOU for the 47 people who filled out the electronic survey 

Broadly speaking, the following topics came forward: 

* Roads (Item most often raised and will continue to advocate on this throughout the Electoral Area) 
* Internet Access (there should be movement on this item in Deep Creek, Wildwood, PIne Valley by the end of 2026) 
* Streetlights in McLeese Lake 
* Seniors' Care Services in McLeese Lake 
* Garbage/Recycling Curbside PIck up (previously, the Regional District has surveyed residents' in Commodore Heights, Pine Valley, Fox Mountain for this service and rejected by local residents) 
* More Policing Services including clamping down on speeding (am working on this) 
* Animal Control in the Electoral Area (working on this for 2025 through Regional District initiated survey) 
* Allowance of 2nd Family Dwelling on ALR Land 
* Secondary Dwelling on Rural Properties (already permitted in many cases -- rural residents' just need to contact Regional District planning staff at 250-392-3351 to start the process) ...
* FireSmart Programming (Regional District is working on this..) 
* Independent VFD funding support (proposed to use Regional District Staff time to research a funding model recently approved in principle by TNRD (Thompson Nicola RD) Board however this was rejected by a 10-4 vote of the Cariboo Regional District Board..  Will continue to advocate for Independent VFD's at McLeese Lake/Tyee Lake ... 
* Water Testing at Tyee Lake 

Again, thank you to everyone who submitting a response and I will do what I can to address the concerns brought forward to the best of my ability... 

Yours in service, 

Steve

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