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winnipeg.cbc.ca
Wednesday, November 5th, 2003
WINNIPEG - The two sides in a dispute over an historic piece
of land will try to work out a compromise.
That's the agreement reached on Tuesday night after the Save
Our Seine and some Metis groups squared off against developers
who want to build a low income senior's complex near the Seine
River in southeast Winnipeg.
Those groups opposing the development say the senior's centre
is proposed for land where Louis Riel's father had a grist mill,
and the area should be home to an interpretive centre.
St.Boniface Councillor, Dan Vandal, who is on the Riel community
committee, says both sides are going to try to work things out.
"The people for the proposal and the people against the proposal
requested time for them to talk to each other," says Vandal. "There
wasn't a lot of communication between the two groups prior to
yesterday's meeting. So we closed public hearings and we instructed
them to have some meetings to discuss common issues and maybe
come back on December 1 with a solution to this problem that accommodates
both interests."
Vandal says the vote on the development of the site will occur
on December 1.
He refused to say where he stands on the issue, although he admits
it's a challenging issue for him because he is both Metis and
the head of the Property and Development Committee.
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