The Yukon government will not accept an application for a gravel quarry in the area known as the Stevens Quarry, located between the Alaska Highway and Takhini River, says a senior official.
The government issued a decision document on Dec. 29 indicating it accepted the recommendation from the Yukon Environment and Socio-economic Assessment Board that a quarry project be permitted to proceed in the area west of the Mayo Road intersection.
Susan Antpoehler of the government’s lands branch said Tuesday the assessment board process is independent of the government’s regulatory process.
Stevens Quarry, she explained, is under an administrative land reserve. As such, the government will not entertain any quarry applications for the area.
The Yukon government is moving forward with its own plan to open up development of the Stevens Quarry site, says a senior official with the
government’s land management branch.
Susan Antpoehler said in an interview Tuesday the government expects to have plans back by the end of March from the consultant hired to look at the best way to go about making the known gravel resources available.
It’s possible that access to quarry leases could be available later this year through a standard public process, she said.
The manager of client services said it’s difficult to say how that might unfold but however it does, it will take community concerns fully into account.
Every single lot was spoken for in the Yukon government’s two land lotteries this week for lots in the Whistle Bend subdivision.
They all went – 142 single-family lots, 20 townhouse lots and all 11 multi-family lots, three of which are priced at over $1 million.
There was a record high of 780 applicants for the lotteries.
Lottery winners had 24 hours after Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s lotteries to accept the offer.
They have 30 days – until Feb. 12 – to enter into an agreement for sale, at which time they would be required to put down their downpayment. That can vary for
single-family lots from $22,000 to $38,000 or more, depending on the size.