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not classified as a City it is a Urban service area (Hamlet) same as Sherwood Park http://open.alberta.ca/dataset/64b75075-142a-493f-9ef5-7536bb260a1f/resource/d4e6440a-2994-4efd-8610-d4bb0a2d7b71/download/2015-RuralMuni.pdf
Closed by Mesowhite
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Comment from Geography Canada
Strathcona County OC 761 95 1996 No9, date of issue: December 6th, 1995 (YMD: 1995/12/06); approved January 1st, 1996; (YMD: 1996/01/01); Schedule 1: "Special Provisions for the Organization and Operation of Strathcona Countyā€¯; section "Urban Service Area":
"4(1) Notwithstanding subsection (3), the Rural Service Area shall be recognized as equivalent to a municipal district by the Government of Alberta for the purposes of program delivery and grant eligibility, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, funding programs and grant eligibility under enactments affecting roads, including secondary roads.".
"(2) Strathcona County shall provide to the Government of Alberta any information required to administer programs or to determine the amount of grants which the Rural Service Area would be eligible for if it were a municipal district.".
"(3) For the purposes of enactments affecting roads, culverts, ditches, drains and highways (excepting highways designated as primary highways under the Public Highways Development Act as of the effective date of this order) within the Rural Service Area, the Rural Service Area is deemed to be a city.".
See the "Order in Council" in full at http://www.municipalaffairs.gov.ab.ca/cfml/pdf_search/pdf/SMUN/0302/Strathcona_County_OC_761_95_1996_No9.pdf.
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Comment from Mesowhite
Thank you for pointing that out to me, the edit will be reverted, Cheers.
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Comment from Geography Canada
Thank you :D! And cheers to you, too :).
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Comment from Viajero Perdido
Hi. I know I'm coming to this discussion a year late. This must be the discussion referenced in the change that promoted Sherwood Park to a "city".
Sherwood-Park-as-city seems and looks wrong. We're expected to map using OSM classifications, per the wiki, not according to the whims of government officials; they tend to have grandiose views of their jurisdictions.
The wiki for place=city says "largest settlement or settlements within a territory". Being right next to Edmonton, Sherwood Park (not to mention Fort Sask, et al) are hardly the "largest".
With Sherwood Park being the same level as Edmonton, some maps might possibly render SP but not Edmonton, due to a lack of space for both.
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