Common Councillor Donnie Snook is questioning why three large lots along Mecklenberg Street are being turned into a location for recycling with the blue bins and a place for parking when the streets have to be plowed of snow.
Snook says he would have preferred to see new housing built there especially in light of the stated goal to have more development in the urban core. He calls Mecklenberg one of the nicer residential streets in the south-central peninsula.
Chief Planner Ken Forrest says the city is hoping this will just be a temporary use and sees the lots eventually be marketed as sites for residential housing.
Snook has also suggested the Charlotte Street court building be turned into housing when the new justice complex opens at Peel Plaza.
