Editor:
Many thanks to the Outlook production team for their work on the Citizens’ Guide to the Three Sisters Corridors on page 2 of the Feb. 25th edition.
We appreciate the opportunity to clarify one point.
Unfortunately, the print version of the Citizens’ Guide gave the impression that TSMV’s 2020 revised corridor proposal reduced the corridor width “an average of 300m” rather than “to an average of 300m”.
This 2020 entry should read: “2020 – TSMV brings forward a revised corridor proposal which fails to incorporate the 2018 AEP decision recommendations, and reduces the corridor width to an average of 300m when measured below a provincial discontinuous slope of 250.”
This is less than the provincial minimum width of 450m below a discontinuous slope recommended by AEP since 1998 and based on decades of research. It is also less than the minimum width recommended by the NRCB in 1992, i.e., “a minimum of 350 metres and up to 500m in some cases.”
However, it is a fact that TSMV’s Smith Creek Area Structure Plan proposes to reduce the corridor to a 156m pinch point in Site 7, so that approximately 250m in width can be taken out of the corridor for development.
More new development is also proposed in Site 9, where the TSMV proposal would remove approximately 130m out the recommended 450m corridor.
Zoning of these new development areas now lies squarely under the municipal jurisdiction of Canmore Council.
Heather MacFadyen,
Bow Corridor Organization for Responsible Development
