{"id":935968,"date":"2026-10-17T03:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935968\/"},"modified":"2026-10-17T03:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-17T03:54:09","slug":"new-challenge-filed-in-battle-over-housing-development-next-to-historic-winnipeg-curling-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/935968\/","title":{"rendered":"New challenge filed in battle over housing development next to historic Winnipeg curling club"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Winnipeg’s Granite Curling Club has launched another legal challenge aiming to stop a 111-unit affordable housing development it says threatens parking space critical for its survival.<\/p>\n

The historic curling club filed an application in the Court of King’s Bench Wednesday seeking a judicial review of the city’s decision to approve building permits to developer UWCRC 2.0 Inc.<\/p>\n

It follows a previous challenge<\/a> asking the courts to weigh in on whether Winnipeg councillors violated the city’s charter when they voted to subdivide and rezone<\/a> a parking lot next to the club to allow for the development.<\/p>\n

A judge reserved his decision on that matter this summer<\/a>, and a ruling is still pending.<\/p>\n

The new challenge asks among other things for an interim injunction barring anyone from carrying out work on the site, and the city from granting any more permits.<\/p>\n

It also asks barricades set around the parking lot on Oct. 6 be removed and for the club’s use of those spaces to be restored.<\/p>\n

“The club is suffering irreparable harm,” the application said. <\/p>\n

“It has lost all use of the parking lot property for an indefinite period of time. Further construction will materially alter the physical state of the [property] and impair the club’s ability to obtain effective relief.”<\/p>\n

Excavation and “other site disturbance activities” began at the site a day after the barricades were set up, the application said.<\/p>\n

The Granite said permits allowing foundation and construction work at the site \u2014 which it’s also asking the courts to quash \u2014 were unlawful and unreasonable. <\/p>\n

Adequate parking plan requirement not met, club says<\/p>\n

The club said the city did not follow a condition imposed by council to develop an “adequate parking plan” supporting its operational sustainability before permits were approved.<\/p>\n

The Granite said the city did not provide it with a finalized parking plan, and that the club also did not get any notice about the approvals.<\/p>\n

Proposed arrangements “remain incomplete and contingent on \u2026 further design work, future agreements and implementation steps,” the application said.<\/p>\n

“There was no assurance that the proposed parking arrangements would remain available, and the city reserved the right to reconsider, modify or withdraw them.”<\/p>\n

The City of Winnipeg previously said it offered to replace 50 out of 60 parking stalls<\/a> that would be removed by the project.<\/p>\n

The application said the directors of the Public Works department and the Planning, Property and Development department did not properly analyze the actual parking requirements for a 1,300-member curling club.<\/p>\n

The Granite is also asking officials to produce all records they reviewed before issuing the permits.<\/p>\n

CBC News reached out to Granite secretary Christian Pierce and UWCRC 2.0 CEO Jeremy Read Friday afternoon. Neither was immediately available for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 3 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":935969,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194296],"tags":[49,48,22073],"class_list":["post-935968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-winnipeg","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-winnipeg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=935968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/935969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}