TREENA MIELKE/Rimbey Review
Residents who live within Rimbey’s town limits, but don’t have an official address will soon see the problem rectified.
At its regular meeting last Monday, council passed a resolution naming as 35th Avenue the road through the area known as Bartko Estates and Nesbitt Estates and assigned addresses to the 13 corresponding lots.
Council passed the resolution according to the town’s addressing policy, designating the road as a numbered avenue and giving properties on the south side of the road odd numbers and properties on the north side assigned even numbers. Numbers are separated by four digits.
Assistant CAO Ryan Maier said the matter of giving the lots in the subdivision a civic address was looked at after a resident from the area, south of the ball diamonds near the outskirts of town, brought it to his attention.
“The town annexed land several years ago and two country residential developments occurred in this area. Although neither development has ever been officially assigned civic addresses, our internal system has them named Bartko Estates for the properties on the north side of the road, and Nesbitt Estates for properties on the south side, with house numbers corresponding with legal lot numbers,” he said.
“These addresses are not part of the Town of Rimbey’s official address map and are not officially assigned.”
Maier added that having proper civic addresses is important so emergency services or courier services can obtain an exact location if necessary.
Maier noted the town does not have a civic addressing bylaw.