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McMaster hopes to break ground on two residences in spring after legal battles
https://www.thespec.com/news/hamilto...l-battles.html



McMaster University hopes to break ground on two off-campus student residences in the spring amid lingering legal challenges while the city braces to forgo millions in related development revenue.

A graduate student residence downtown at 10 Bay St. S. will have 644 beds. A second multistorey student building on Main Street West at Traymore Avenue in Westdale calls for 1,366.

Millions in development charges have been at stake in the university’s appeal of a city bylaw that would have applied them to its planned residences.

But provincial legislation late last year has since exempted all universities from development charges, short-circuiting the Local Planning Appeal Tribunal dispute.