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Affordable Housing Referendum Question: To Be Part of Municipal Election

Along with voting for politicians in October’s municipal election, a referendum question will be posed to electors.

The question will centre around the issue of affordable housing and, at the last CVRD meeting, the board decided to not to make a final decision until community members had an opportunity to voice their opinions.

Board Chair Jon Lefebure says putting a referendum question on the election ballot was, in part, a matter of convenience.

The annual property value tax is $4.58 cents for every $100,000 dollars of assessed value per home.

That tax rate would raise approximately $765,000 dollars annually.

Kyle Christensen
Kyle Christensen
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