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Jonathon Naylor Editor Homebuilders won't be rushing to Kingsway Boulevard anytime soon. Last July, city council announced it would consider opening nine new residential lots on vacant parkland along the street. While that could still eventually happen, council has discovered that the province, not the municipality, actually owns the land. Council will now attempt to gain ownership. 'The Kingsway situation stands where it was. It's not moving anywhere in a hurry,' Mayor George Fontaine said at Tuesday's council meeting. 'What our intent at the time was, and still is, is to look at the viability of that as a potential building spot. Other spots might open up, but we don't want to close the door on anything.' Since the Kingsway land is already used as a park, Municipal Administrator Mark Kolt said it makes sense for the city to try and acquire it even if residential lots are never developed. See'Public...'on pg.11 Continued from pg.1 'I think the province would probably prefer for that land to be in the city's hands,' Kolt said. Mayor Fontaine said no residential development would happen on the land without a public meeting. 'There's no point in having a meeting (right now) when we're not prepared to go anywhere with it,' he said. 'We're not ready to, it's not zoned (as residential) and it's not ours.' If residential lots are to open up, Mayor Fontaine said it would not happen this year. Council's talk of potential new Kingsway lots has irritated some residents who already live on the street, considered one of Flin Flon's nicest neighbourhoods. 'I guess being on the street I'd be a little biased, but I don't appreciate the fact that there's a proposal for lots here,' Marty Ledoux told The Reminder over the summer. 'I'm of the understanding that our town is getting smaller, and I don't know why we're building more lots when the town is decreasing in population.' Ledoux also feared new lots would take away from 'a very picturesque' neighbourhood and lower proper values of existing homes.
