The Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure is seeking to subdivide a 0.3-hectare parcel of land in the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George to fix an over-70-year-old error.
When Chief Lake Road was built, a roughly 201-metre-long section of the roadway encroached on private land, located at 32425 Chief Lake Rd., according to a report which went before the regional district board last month.
“The purpose of the application is to rectify the trespassing of Chief Lake Road onto the owner’s property by the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI),” regional district planner Daniel Burke wrote in a report to the board. “MoTI is proposing to subdivide a 0.30 ha portion of the subject property to encompass the existing road. As described in the application, the landowner approached MoTI to complete the tenure clean-up exercise for Chief Lake Road…. MoTI notes without proper road tenure (dedication), the Ministry can struggle to complete required maintenance and upgrades.”
The section of Chief Lake Road encroaching on private land is located roughly 8.6 km northwest of Nukko Lake.
On March 23, the regional district board voted in favour of referring the proposed subdivision to the Agricultural Land Commission for consideration, according to the meeting minutes.
“The properties group with the Ministry of Transportation is currently working with the property owners for this application,” MoTI development officer Sydney Mellett wrote in support of the application.
