One of Moose Jaw’s bylaw enforcement officers has now been given the power to administer and enforce all aspects of the zoning bylaw.
Shona Mark-Sullivan was appointed as a development officer for the City of Moose Jaw during city council’s Oct. 15 regular meeting. She was hired this past September as a bylaw enforcement officer, with one of her duties seeing her act as a development officer. The zoning bylaw requires that city council appoint her for the role, even though this is a personnel issue that would normally be handled internally at city hall.
Section 3.5 of the zoning bylaw states, “Except for Section 11 of this bylaw, which shall be administered by the city’s building official, the development officer shall administer this bylaw. The development officer shall be the city engineer, the city planner, the manager of engineering services or any other employee of the city authorized in writing by the council to act as a development officer for the purposes of this bylaw and the act.
“For the purposes of administering and enforcing Section 11, the building official shall have the same authority under the act as a development officer.”
The next regular council meeting is Monday, Oct. 28.
