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Proud to be part of your community! Thursday, October 27, 2016 | 44 pages
Neighbours oppose latest design to redevelop former midtown schoolyard By Bill Hutchins
News – The City of Kingston has come up with a new design for the redevelopment of a former elementary school at 671 Brock Street. But hundreds of residents remain unhappy with it, saying the city hasn’t gone far enough to address their concerns. District councillor Jim Neill presented a 969-name neighbourhood petition Oct. 18 that urges councillors to use more of the property for park space and to scrap plans to flip some of the school land for private housing. “The petition says we should maintain the same amount of open park space that’s existed there for almost 70 years,” said Coun. Neill. That would mean keeping about 75-percent of the former St. Joseph/St. Mary Catholic School property as open space, while allocating the remaining 25 percent for affordable mixed use housing,
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he explained. The revised concept plan drawn up by staff to redevelop the 1.5 acre property envisions less park space. “It includes a park occupying 55 per cent of the property and located on the northern portion of the site, an affordable housing block in the southeast corner of the property occupying approximately 24 per cent of the site and a market housing block located in the southwest corner of the property occupying approximately 21 per cent of the site,” according to a report by community services commissioner Lanie Hurdle. In response to mounting public concerns, Coun. Lisa Osanic says she intends to introduce a motion at the next council meeting Nov. 1 to reconsider the original concept plan in order to allocate more of the school space for park land. The reconsideration will need a two-thirds majority to reopen the debate. City officials continue to
insist that some of the property be sold to the private sector for private housing in order to help finance the new playground and to reduce the cost of the affordable housing component. The housing is to be developed by Kingston and Frontenac Housing Corporation, which is eligible for a $1.5 million provincial grant for capital construction as long the project gets underway next year. Coun. Neill says neighbours don’t object to allocating some of the property for mixed use public housing, but they don’t want any of the land re-sold for private housing. “We’re not in the business of flipping property that was purchased for community benefit to the private sector.” Neighbours around the former school remain bitter over the way the entire land use process has unfolded.
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