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Originally Posted by sailor734
I don't like the idea much but............This is not a "public park". It has been privately owned since JDI bought it from the province in 1998 and demolished the old mental hospital. They did the landscaping, have kept up the property maintenance and have allowed free use of their property by the public since then.
As to building a garage instead, I'm reading this as that the additional parking is needed for workers taking part in the mill modernization project and thus the need may well only be temporary.
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I should have said popular park open to the public. Really though, it seems like a slow moving bait and switch, especially considering it was publicly owned land in the first place.
Would be less terrible if it was only temporary, but I thought I also read something about a vehicle maintenance facility too, which didn’t sound so temporary.
The city shouldn’t be so quick to approve this rezoning request simply to make parking solutions easier for the mill. There’s other parking solutions. The city should hold steady and keep it zoned as a park.