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A weekly roundup of noteworthy news in municipalities across B.C.<\/em><\/p>\n

The 8,000 square foot multi-million dollar Vancouver Island Mountain Centre sitting on the slopes of Mount Washington, at the edge of Strathcona Provincial Park has opened to much praise<\/a>.\u00a0 Designed through collaboration between the Vancouver Island Mountain Sports Society and CEI Architecture, it is intended to bring together the Island\u2019s diverse communities to celebrate all things outdoors.<\/p>\n

Great news for White rock residents as a year-to-year comparison recently released by the RCMP reveals that the overall crime rate in White Rock dropped 16% in 2011<\/a> from the year before.<\/p>\n

Although a tax raise in hardly welcome, at least homeowners in Coquitlam can be happy that they have the smallest increase of residential tax levies in the Tri-Cities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

TransLink aims to open a new and presumably tolled Pattullo Bridge by 2018 and it now wants public comment on design options<\/a>.
\nThe two-year consultation process getting underway is shaping up to be a tussle between Surrey and New Westminster over how big a bridge is needed.<\/p>\n

A bit of good news for homeowners and first time buyers as Finance Minister Kevin Falcon found money in his restraint budget Tuesday to boost home building and renovations<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Issue surrounding our garbage continue with Metro Vancouver chopping the size of a new waste-to-energy plant <\/a>it intends to build to help consume the region’s garbage and stop sending garbage for landfill in the Interior.<\/p>\n

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