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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

East Side Gravel Pit Rejected

The issue that turned Common Council into a marathon session two weeks ago and prompted a shouting match involving Councillor Bruce Court at a later public meeting has been put to rest.......A proposed gravel pit adjacent to 460 Latimore Lake Road will not be going forward.

Odette McGrath lives on the road and spoke out against the project during the public hearing phase saying it would cause too much smoke and dust.

City Staff had concluded a gravel pit would have been appropriate.

She tells CHSJ News she is happy with the decision and if the proposal had gone through, many in the neighbourhood would have chosen to leave the neighbourhood.

McGrath also gives credit to her Ward councillors, one of whom is Bruce Court.