Limestone City Co-Operative Housing Inc. is not giving up on its vision to build a 240-unit, co-operative high rise with vertical farming, according to Kingston City Coun. Jeff McLaren.
Despite members of city council and Mayor Bryan Paterson raising concerns about the project and rejecting a request for a loan for the build, the group is heading back to the horseshoe on March 4, McLaren said. They will be asking council to transfer the piece of land at 900 Division St. to LCCH in the form of a lease, sale of $1, sale at a negotiated price, or sale at market rate.
"The whole project is meant to change the way we look at housing," McLaren, the councillor for Meadowbrook-Strathcona and the chair of the LCCH board, said.
"We've always had housing separated from everything else. In this building, we're integrating the farming aspect of it, the vertical farm, and that means that we're fighting climate change and all the pollution that comes with transporting food because we can grow it just down the hallway from where you live. It gives people the community that they can work together to do this. So, they see the tangible benefits in their space every day."
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