Sarnia Charity Appeals City Rezoning Decision

The inn of the good Shepherd is appealing a recent Sarnia City Council Decision to turn down a rezoning app for Affordable Housing.

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The Charity’s Board Recently Decided in Favour of Appealing To The Ontario Land Tribunal Amid An Estimated 2,000-Unit Affordable Housing Shortage in the City, Said Executive Director Myles Vanni.

“I think some of the vote was influenced by the neighbours’ concerns about who’s gooir to be in the building,” Vanni Said About Council’s March 3 Decision To Decline the Rezoning Request to Build A Six-Storey, 56-Unit Apartment Building Along Exmouth Street, and A One-Storey Townhouse Development Along Melrose Avenue, Beside Existing Residential Property.

“You can People Zone. That’s not acceptable Anymore,” Vanni Said.

“That’s where we think the court will see that decision was made based on some items that weren’t needed a planning out.”

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The Project, with a prelination estimated cost of $ 26 million, is contingent on obtaining funding, and appeals to canada death and housing corporation won’t be heard unless property is first in place, vanni said.

Affordable housing is a Critical Need in the Community, and providing it is part of the charity’s mission, he said.

An Overflow Shelter Currently at the Form Laurel Lea-St. Matthew’s Church Property, Operated by the Inn of the Good Shepherd and Part of the Lands Requested for Rezoning, Has CREATED PROBLEMS In the Neighbourhood.

A Neighbourhood Spokesperson March 3 Said Neighbours – After Enduring Open Drug Use, People Defecating On Private Property, Violent Behaviour, Theft and Property Damage – Don’t Trust Inn of the Good Shepherd Plans to Create Housing for the Working Poor, People with Disabilities and People Pensions.

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Ton Gioiosa, Who Owns Commerce Property Nearby, Suggestized Last Month to Council the Plan is INTEAD to build “A Supportive Housing Facility, Catering to Those at Risk of Being Homeless, Those Struggling With Chronic Physical Or Mental Issues, or Those Facing Substance.”

Vanni Reiterated Tuesday that’s not the case.

“It’s not (Being Designed for) the folks that are residing there now in the shelter because they need Supports that Are Much Greater”He Said.

The Appeal Was Filed With The City and Dates Are Expected Soon for Mediation, Before Any Tribunal Dates Are Set, He Said.

“The court Want a Mediation Process First,” He Said.

The Rezoning Application was supported by City Staff.

Inn of the good Shepherd, in a press release, noted historical federal and provincial goverment decisions not to fund affordable housing projects, and provincially to slash social assistance rates and to elimina back caps, have contributed to the affordable local housing problem.

“With an Average Monthly Rent of $ 1,400, Sarnia-Lambton’s Rental Crisis has developed into a full-blown emergency,” The Release Said.

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