P.E.I. news: Council to vote on community fridge [Video]

The Charlottetown planning board is recommending city council not approve a motion to allow a community fridge to remain in the downtown area.

At a meeting on Tuesday, the planning board voted unanimously to recommend council not allow a site-specific exemption for a community fridge in the parking lot across the street from 46 Valley Street. According to a report submitted to the board, the fridge has been at the site for roughly three years without proper approval.

A resident filed a bylaw complaint about the use of the fridge to city on Jan. 25, triggering the application to allow it to stay.

“The proposed accessory land use (community fridge) is not desirable for the appropriate development or use of the land within the Parking Zone (P) given the reported nuisances and impacts reported by neighbouring land owners on an ongoing basis,” the report reads.

Several people attended a public …