After the City of Nanaimo’s third attempt to borrow funding to upgrade the city’s Public Works Yard has been denied by voters.
This comes after two failed attempts due to administrative errors, in the fall of 2023 and winter of 2024, for the Alternative Approval Process (AAP). This AAP was meant to seek voters’ consent to borrow $90 million to upgrade the Public Works Yard.
For the borrowing to be denied if 10 per cent of the voting population or 7,974 or more eligible voters submitted forms opposed.
According to the City of Nanaimo, 8,655 valid response forms were received by the deadline–681 voters over the minimum required to stop the borrowing.
Now, the Nanaimo City Council has decided they will not immediately go to referendum and is reevaluating options for how to upgrade the aging Public Works Yard
