P.E.I. government setting up special zone to keep shelter and outreach centre on Park Street [Video]

P.E.I.’s minister of housing is standing firm on the location of the Community Outreach Centre and emergency shelter in Charlottetown. As Steven Myers tells Louise Martin of CBC News: Compass, the province is enacting a regulatory amendment to ensure it stays on Park Street.

The province’s emergency overnight shelter and Community Outreach Centre will continue operating in its current location within Charlottetown despite a city council vote earlier this week, P.E.I.’s housing minister says.

In an interview Thursday, Steven Myers said regulatory amendments have been enacted to create a special planning area taking in a large plot of land that includes the Park Street property on which the shelter and outreach centre are located.

That gives the provincial government final say on what happens inside that zone, not the municipality of Charlottetown.

“Effectively we’re taking Charlottetown’s development rights away from the area and giving them to the government by creating …