Centre Wellington will receive $25,000 in Business Retention and Expansion (BR+E) implementation funding from the county to review its development application process.
On Nov. 26, county council approved an application from the municipality for the grant to cover 100% of costs for a consultant to conduct a review of the township development application process. The project will involve a review of the files, interviews with municipal staff, external interviews with those involved in the site plan process, comparisons with other similarly sized municipalities and facilitated round tables for those involved to recommend changes.
Economic development staff recommended acceptance of the application as Centre Wellington’s 2015 project.
“It will provide a good reflection of the existing commercial/industrial development process and hopefully, involve the county during the process as well as share the results with the other municipalities once completed,” states a report from economic development officer Jana Burns.
Centre Wellington’s application was the final 2015 request for BR + E implementation funding the report notes.
