Moncton Irving land no longer a factor in city housing plans
City plan adopted in 2017 called for hundreds of homes on area now not expected to be developed
Shane Magee · CBC News · Posted: Mar 21, 2024 6:00 AM ADT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-b...lans-1.7149491
CBC Photo of the land in question. Robert Irving's home and horse farm is in the upper left of the image. He has purchased the wooded land in the foreground.
CBC photo - This had been the city's plan for the proposed Humphrey Brook neighbourhood (prior to Irving buying the land)
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Hundreds of acres in Moncton where the city expected thousands of people to call home are now no longer a factor in its plans after the land was purchased by one of New Brunswick's most powerful families.
It's a change that comes as the city plans to overhaul zoning rules to address what the city's mayor has described as a "crisis situation" for housing.
The properties in the city's east end cover an area comparable in size to Moncton's downtown. They were purchased almost a decade ago by Robert Irving and the company he leads, Cavendish Farms.
Around the time of the purchases, the city spent $150,000 and two years on a plan calling for the area to become home to thousands of people by the 2030s.
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