Dream Development, the company behind the Montrose sub-division, has asked for another extension from High River Town Council for endorsement and registration of Phase Two.

Vice-President of Development with the company Jim Grandan says the lots just aren't selling, partly because of what's happened in the past with flooding, but the Town's done a lot to alleviate that issue.

"We know that with the passage of time, the more years go by no flooding and proof that all the work the Town has done is going to protect the residents and their private property then we feel that'll be recognized by the market and High River will return to being a good place to build a home," Grandan says.

He says the southwest berm would also go a long ways toward making residents in the area safer.

"In the 2013 flood we had received flood water from the north, being the Little Bow River through the older part of town, as well as from the west over the tracks at the time," he says. "The southwest dike is instrumental in protecting us from the flow from the west, the work that the Town has done all through the rest of the town has already protected us from that flow from the north."

The economic slow down is also a major issue in the lack of sales.

Grandan says there's an incentive for them to get going sooner, the cost of re-applying for a development permit after the two years is up they'd have to pay, he says, in the tens of thousands of dollars, as well as dealing with changes to levies brought in since the original application.