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Originally Posted by bomberjet
Nothing. Nothing.. Esquire haha
The 18th St thing is in the southwest. So at least won't affect whatever they end up doing at the TCH.
If you read the article, the Brandon City councilor doesn't necessarily disagree with the decision. Just not in the heavy handed manner Doyle P went about it. This is within Doyles Legislative district I believe. Which makes things murkier.
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Piwniuk is actually MLA for Turtle Mountain, a riding southwest of Brandon, although it is nearish.
VBJ is one arm of large (for Brandon) conglomerate Jacobson and Greiner.
The development in question has been discussed for years. The land was actually annexed from the adjacent RM. Various iterations of the site plan have shown a large big box store with a distinctive sheared off corner (cough, cough, Costco).
The development is inside the "Brandon Bypass"/Highway 110 (It's actually the designated dangerous goods route for heavy industry like Koch, etc.) Whether they ever build the western half of it is unknown, but it is not a great surprise that development would be allowed in this area with future planned speed limit reductions. Think Portage Avenue in Headingly west of the Perimeter.
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