Bonners Ferry gets
bigger
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November 16, 2011 |
Despite the objections of nearly every property
owner involved, the City of Bonners Ferry grew
Tuesday night by about 70 lots and parcels,
properties within the city area of impact the
city has the right to annex and which, Tuesday
night, they were.
By a vote of three to one, with councilman Chris
Clark casting the only "nay" vote, the Bonners
Ferry city council Tuesday night exercised it's
right and brought properties to which the city
already provides nearly all utilities under
wing.
Those property owners, the city says, have
enjoyed city-provided services for years, and
with the annexation, those services will
improve. Trash pickup will be provided by the
city ... something many in the area of impact
took for granted, even while paying a monthly
fee.
That fee will go away.
Most of those property owners depended on the
Paradise Valley Fire Department for fire
protection; a measure they voted to adopt;
that chit goes off the tax roll as well as the
City of Bonners Ferry Fire Department assumes
main responsibility.
That fee goes away for those newly adopted city
residents.
The city will pick up trash, provided you set it
out, and the fee you're paying for that service
now goes away.
"I think that if they'll wait and see, most of
the property owners brought into the city limits
will see their tax bill go down and their
services go up," said city clerk Kris Larson.
"They won't be able to shoot their guns, as
that's prohibited in city limits."
The city council decision was the only sensible
one, they decided, to be made in fairness to the
people who are getting the benefits versus the
people who pay for them.
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