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The district has rejected an application to amend the OCP designation and rezoning his 37-acreproperty on the west end of the Depot Road in Brackendale.

The district is looking for residents and business operators to join the Squamish Brand Leadership Team (BLT).

After scanning 1,143 surveys and six months of discussions, brand development committee is circling the word ‘epic’ to define and pitch Squamish to the world.

The provincial government has repeatedly stressed the LNG plants in B.C. would be the world’s cleanest LNG plants, meaning they will boast the world’s lowest life cycle greenhouse gas emissions.

A job growth projection report in the Squamish Lillooet Regional District predicts the high tech field will be the second-fastest growing industry next to public sector jobs by 2031.

With an eye on GHE emissions and airshed quality, Woodfibre LNG proponents say they will prefer electricity over natural gas to run the LNG plant.

A negative public perception and high servicing costs may be keeping potential investors away from the Paradise Trails, says the man tasked with selling the property.

This summer, Solterra Development Corporation will start work on a public market in the former PacWest building, across from the Howe Sound Inn, on Cleveland Ave. Solterra will also build an indoor mountain bike park and a climbing facility on a portion of the 20-acre business park the company bought from the district in 2012.

A vertical farming entrepreneur is leaving Squamish and planning to set up his farm in Langley.

Sea to Sky Gondola is holding its first annual Job Fair at the Executive Inn in Squamish on April 4th and 5th, 2014.