London’s one-year ban on new methadone clinics was defended by city hall officials Tuesday as a formal challenge against the temporary restriction began.
It’s been six months since the red-hot issue of where such treatment centres should be allowed was cooled by city council approving the year-long moratorium, giving staff until this November to examine permanent rules.
But that so-called interim control bylaw has been challenged by a provincewide chain of clinics, whose appeal went to the Ontario Municipal Board Tuesday.
“The point I’d like to emphasize is the study we’re doing is not relating just to land-use impacts,” John Fleming, the city’s planning boss, told the OMB hearing.
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