The Manitoba Municipal Board began hearing arguments Tuesday in a fight between the City of Winnipeg and the Granite Curling Club over a proposed housing project on the parking lot next to the club.

Granite wants the municipal board  — a provincial body with the authority to overturn city land-use decisions — to overturn a council rezoning decision that allows for the construction of a 111-unit apartment building on the parking lot.

The City of Winnipeg owns the West Broadway-area club building and the adjacent parking lot. The apartment building project has been developed by the University of Winnipeg Community Renewal Corporation 2.0.

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The club says it would lose more than half of the parking spaces its members use in the even

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