Approval for a 32-unit residential development in uptown Leamington isn't coming easy.
The original plans for the townhouse style units didn't have council or administration's backing. Revised plans town planners hadn't even seen yet were brought to council, but deputy mayor Hilda McDonald says there was too much to review to consider last minute submissions.
"It's in the fine details that needed to be worked out, but there were plenty of them," says McDonald. "For [the developers] to come in and say they had 12 changes, we needed to see what they were, we needed to reflect on them, we needed to know what the planner thought."
The proposed development would go up on the north side of Talbot St. E between Wigle St. and Jones Ave.
"We didn't have a problem with the idea of it," says McDonald. "It's the fine tuning. That the development is safe, that it's attractive, that it also appeals to the people affected by it which would be the neighbouring properties."
A decision on the project has been deferred to council's next meeting so planners can review the changes.
