New proposal on secondary suites gets shut down
Posted Sep 11, 2014 7:32 am.
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A proposal to make secondary suites legal citywide has been denied.
The Planning and Urban Development Committee shot down the idea Wednesday, despite General Manager Rollin Stanley trying to convince members it would not affect street parking or attract the wrong kind of people.
The idea was to institute a program that would give city staffers the authority to review secondary suite proposals, eliminating the current one-by-one review of city council.
Councillor Richard Pootmans says the people in his ward don’t see the utility in disrupting their neighbourhood.
“Our campaign went to 32,000 doors, virtually every door in the constituency, and I personally reckoned with about 5,000 doors and it was a pretty clear message from the residents they were not interested,” Pootmans said.
Debate about the controversial secondary suite issue will heat up again later this month, as the issue is brought to full city council.
