Improvement District No. 349 was an
improvement district in
northeast Alberta, Canada that existed between January 1, 2012 and May 1, 2021. The improvement district was largely coextensive with the Alberta portion of the
Cold Lake Air Weapons Range
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The facility is operated as an air force base by the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) and is approximately south of the ...
. On May 1, 2021, the improvement district was annexed by the adjacent
Municipal District (MD) of Bonnyville No. 87.
History
Improvement District (ID) No. 349 was established through the approval of Order in Council 419/2011 passed by Alberta's Lieutenant Governor in Council on September 9, 2011.
It was created from lands that were separated from the
Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and
Lac La Biche County (the Alberta portion of the Cold Lake Air Weapons Range).
[
ID No. 349 was formed as a result of negotiations between the Province of Alberta, the City of Cold Lake, the MD of Bonnyville No. 87, the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, and Lac La Biche County.][ The revenue made the city more sustainable, offsetting its costs to provide infrastructure and services to support the ]military base
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located within the city.[
As partial compensation for losing of land, Lac La Biche County received of land from the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo south of the ]Conklin Conklin may refer to:
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area and north of the air weapons range.[
As compensation to Wood Buffalo for the loss of jurisdiction over lands to Lac La Biche County and the new improvement district, the municipality received control over Crown land within its jurisdiction to accommodate future residential, commercial, and industrial growth.][ The transfer of control provided enough land for approximately 200,000 additional residents.][
After over nine years as a municipality, ID No. 349 dissolved by way of being annexed by the MD of Bonnyville No. 87 on May 1, 2021.]
Demographics
In the 2021 Census of Population
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conducted by Statistics Canada
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, Improvement District No. 349 had a population of 15 living in 7 of its 7 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
See also
* CFB Cold Lake
*List of communities in Alberta
The province of Alberta, Canada, is divided into ten types of local governments – urban municipalities (including cities, towns, villages and summer villages), specialized municipalities, rural municipalities (including municipal district ...
References
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2012 establishments in Alberta
2021 disestablishments in Alberta
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