Public notices not the best place to start cutting back

By Letter to the Editor on November 28, 2020.

If the City is looking for areas where it can reduce expenditures, cutting back on public notices for zoning changes and development permits may not be the best place to begin.
To start with, the province requires municipalities to give notice of such public hearings. Second, a business requesting a bylaw change is responsible for the costs associated with such a public notice, not the City, so we wouldn’t be saving taxpayers any money, but we would be making it more difficult for them to get information about developments in their community.
Robert Tarleck
Lethbridge