Villa condo fight not over
September 22, 2009
Eric McGuinness
The Hamilton Spectator
http://www.thespec.com/News/BreakingNews/article/639716
St. Joseph’s Villa may have to pray to win city approval for two 10-storey apartment towers on its property at Ogilvie Street and Governor’s Road in Dundas.
More than 100 people applauded as 15 well-prepared objectors lined up to denounce the plan at a public hearing at the Hamilton Convention Centre today.
Dundas Councillor Russ Powers, who is not a member of the economic development and planning committee, said there was no way he could support it, and no committee member spoke in favour.
After more than three and a half hours, councillors Brian McHattie and Terry Whitehead moved to defer a decision to see if Powers could broker a compromise between the villa, owned by St. Joseph’s Heathcare, and the critics, many of whom live in two six-storey, life-equity condo buildings on the property and on Walnut Grove, an adjacent cul de sac of single-family homes.