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The Manitoba Municipal Board will hold a public hearing on the potential rezoning of the former Northminster Memorial United Church to accommodate apartment dwellings. The hearing will be held in Flin Flon and is tentatively scheduled for July, Flin Flon Municipal Administrator Larry Fancy said. A group of Hill Street area residents have filed a formal objection with the province regarding the rezoning. They feel the new apartment would create a parking nightmare, more noise and garbage, and force any children living in the building to play on the street because they would not have a yard. Should the Municipal Board support the rezoning, the matter will go back to Flin Flon City Council, which would vote on a third and final reading of a motion to rezone. A favourable vote would give the project the green light. Council has already passed first and second readings of the rezoning motion despite some opposition. Local developer Scott Bryson would like to turn the old church into an apartment complex. At last report, he was looking at constructing wheelchair-accessible dwellings, as he believes there is a shortage of this type of housing.
