Charlottetown apartment proposal scaled back
Last Updated: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 | 12:02 PM AT
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A Charlottetown developer has withdrawn his application for a new apartment building in the city's downtown.
Dico Reijers, who owns T.S. Magnum, had planned to build a four-storey building on the corner of Weymouth and Dorchester streets.
Neighbours complained earlier this summer after Reijers made the application, so he has withdrawn the proposal from the city's planning board.
"We wanted to address some of the neighbours' concerns as far as the mass of the building," he said. "They wanted to see less people living there, and they didn't want to see a building of that size."
A petition had been circulating to stop the development. If council had approved the plan, the building would have been larger than city bylaws normally allow.
Reijers said his new plans involve a building 20 per cent smaller, and reducing the number of apartments from 29 to 21.
He plans to meet with residents and the city in the next few weeks, and have the new plans completed by October.
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