Peter Milczyn: Grandfathering

Heavy Industrial Dept: The bylaw passed Wednesday evening, grandfathering in churches now situated in the eight per cent of land zoned for heavy industrial, but closing the door to future congregations looking at these more reasonably priced areas, according to The Star. However, new churches will still have access to 92 per cent of all buildable lands, said planning chair Peter Milczyn and New churches looking to open up in the city will have a large swath of available lands to work with just not heavy industrial properties that tend to be more affordable for poorer, immigrant churches. The initial bylaw raised the ire of religious groups around the city when the draft was first introduced last year and many religious groups expressed concern they d be booted from their buildings and left without a place of worship. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.