In response to a petition from the owner of land adjacent to the Vavenby fire protection area, Thompson-Nicola Regional District board of directors gave the first three readings to a bylaw that will extend the fire protection boundary to include his property.
The decision was made during a regular board meeting held Thursday, March 13.
The parcel of land in question is at the extreme western end of the Vavenby fire protection area, south of Highway 5 and east of the McCorvie Lake Forest Service Road turnoff.
The Vavenby Fire Protection Service was established in 1979 and converted to a local service area with the TNRD in 1990.
The proposed extension also allows the TNRD to update its fire protection map to show the lands that were included in District of Clearwater when it incorporated in 2007. These lands (the Canfor sawmill and the former Weyerhaeuser sawmill site) remain within the Vavenby fire protection area.
