The Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) may be providing a more timely service, but the cost to apply has more than doubled.
A Ministry of Agriculture release notes that in the last year the ALC has improved its service delivery since receiving a $1.1-million funding boost.
And while the ALC has eliminated a backlog of 185 applications, and processed more than 90 per cent of all of the applications it received since April 1, 2016 within 90 business days of receiving them, a good chunk of the work is done locally by the City of Salmon Arm and the Columbia Shuswap Regional District, both of whom did not get an increase in fee it receives.
Barb Brouwer – Lake Country Calendar – February 17, 2016.
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