Glen Elm Trailer Park resident suggests Taylor Field site be rezoned for mobile homes

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· Posted: May 20, 2025 4:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago

A nonmigratory of Regina's Glen Elm trailer tribunal wants the City of Regina to rezone the erstwhile Taylor Field to let manufactured homes connected the site.

"It's truly an perfect site. The services are there, it's acceptable to go, the metropolis owns it, there's nary ownership issues," Randall Edge, president of the Glen Elm Retirement Community Residents Association, told The Morning Edition.

"When you look astatine Taylor Field, it's got fantastic access. It's precise adjacent successful proximity to Lewvan Drive which is cleanable for moving successful manufactured homes."

In January, Glen Elm Properties, which owns the Glen Elm trailer park, served 14 residents with eviction notices saying their h2o and sewer lines were nary longer viable and that residents would person their services unopen disconnected May 1.

A 2nd radical of residents, including Edge, were fixed until June 30 to permission the park.

Glen Elm Properties did not respond to requests for an interview.

Edge said immoderate of the trailers weren't successful immoderate signifier to beryllium moved from the trailer tribunal and adjacent if they were, there's obscurity to instrumentality them.

"We're lone allowed by zoning to beryllium wherever we are."

Edge said the thought of rezoning Taylor Field for manufactured homes came aft Regina metropolis assembly voted past week to inquire Ottawa and the state for wealth to redevelop the erstwhile Taylor Field tract for residential housing.

The archetypal signifier would usage wealth from the Canada Housing Infrastructure Fund (CHIF) to physique discarded and stormwater infrastructure on with roads and greenish space.

Using the tract astatine Taylor Field for housing, peculiarly affordable housing, has been discussed since the archetypal Mosaic Stadium was demolished successful 2017.

"Here we person this fantastic property, the aged Taylor Field that's been sitting unused for 10 years designated for low-cost housing. Why don't we clasp manufactured homes?" Edge said.

In March, metropolis assembly unanimously passed a question to let manufactured and mobile homes to beryllium moved onto vacant residential tons successful Regina.

Ward 6 city councillor Victoria Flores, who introduced the motion, said metropolis medication is moving connected an expedited study and recommendations based connected the question to beryllium acceptable successful the 4th fourth of this year.

"The model initiated by this question is intended to measure the suitability of assorted sites, perchance including Taylor Field, for manufactured homes," Flores said.