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Proud to be part of your community! Thursday, November 17, 2016 | 44 pages
City creates public advisory panel to help guide future school purchases BY BILL HUTCHINS
News - Councillors are trying to diffuse neighbourhood tensions about what to do with any more schools they may acquire. They've agreed that any future purchases of mothballed schools should include more up-front consultation. "We need a big picture vision," said Mayor Bryan Paterson. Councillors voted 11-2 in support of a Nov. 1 motion introduced by Coun. Jeff McLaren to establish a six-member temporary community advisory group. Its role will be to identify school sites the city may wish to acquire, potential land uses and how the redevelopments could be financed. "There's a lot of them coming up," said Coun. Peter Stroud, referring to public and catholic schools that are in the process of being decommissioned. He says adding another layer of community involvement stems from neighbourhood discontent over the city's handling of the $2.2 million purchase of St. Mary-St. Joseph
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School at 671 Brock Street. "They weren't consulted. That's part of the reason they were ticked off." Councillors are proceeding with a strategy to carve the 1.5 acre school site into three parcels; 55 percent of the land will be devoted to public park space, 24-percent for affordable housing and remaining 21-percent is to be sold for private housing. More than 1,000 people signed a petition to alter the proposed configuration and devote 75 percent of the land for park land and develop the remaining space for affordable housing only. Residents complained that staff's three-use strategy for 671 Brock Street was unveiled before there was any public consultation. The mayor says just because councillors didn't follow neighbourhood concerns in this case doesn't mean they're not listening. "We heard the message about Brock Street but we need to balance it with an over-arching strategy."
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