Business View Civil Municipal - July 2023

66 CIVIL AND MUNICIPAL VOLUME 4, ISSUE 7 the community within the next year or two.” In 2011, said Barnes, a new protective services building and fire department were built. “It’s more of a regional base,” he said, “so we have the county cops in there, too.” Barnes added that Blackfalds has seen much improvement in its safety and security in the co-located a new library. It is a public library that has doubled in size. The one building will house both the library and the arena. “I’m aware of at least four fairly substantial area structure plans for development,” the mayor continued. “Some of those are mixed-residential and commercial. We expect to have at least four developers that would be continuing residential and commercial development in