The municipal planning commission has approved a permit application to allow a daytime homeless shelter to operate in a storefront on N. Railway Street, which was formerly the Mustard Seed and Champions Centre. The permit is good until the end of September. NEWS PHOTO COLLIN GALLANT
A daytime homeless shelter will be allowed to set up on N. Railway Street storefront after Medicine Hat’s municipal planning commission was presented Wednesday with a plan to mitigate concerns brought up by neighbouring business
That includes a staffing plan, a security guard for at least the first month of operation, an outline of capacity limits and a communications plan with neighbours and police, who say they’ll put a focus on the area.
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Downtown business owners plan to formally object to a daytime homeless shelter that is now operating near the downtown intersection of Third Street and Sixth Avenue.
They say groups of shelter users congregate near their storefronts on one of downtown’s busiest street, and better space could be found.
Announced in mid-December, it provides space during daytime hours to those who access overnight shelter space, as well as providing certain social service resources to others, say administrators.