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.