High River's Mayor has concerns about the amount of influence Growth Management Boards will have.

Craig Snodgrass says the Town's been in and out of the Calgary Regional Partnership at different times but now they won't have a choice.

"Now it's moving to a government mandated Growth Management board and this is where concern goes up a little bit more for us with who gets to dictate what happens in our local municipalities," he says. "Calgary and the MD of Rockyview don't get along at all and there's going to be some sticking points with getting those issues settled out for the Province, but the reality is that we are going to be mandated to be a part of this."

He doesn't want Calgary, as the largest member of the board, or the province, to come in and start watering it down and making decisions for the town.

"We are a very active and innovative community as you've seen over the last four years and we do things different, and we do it better, I don't want this kind of stuff to kill that innovation," Snodgrass says. "Every community throws that word innovation around, we actually do it so I don't want the status quo to come climbing in here to hinder us from doing the good things we're doing."

He says in the end it comes down to who gets to dictate what happens in local communities.