A new rental apartment building on Hartzel Road in Merritton can move forward with fewer parking spaces and other zoning modifications after city council supported the concept Monday.

The development will be built on a vacant lot at 97 Hartzel Rd. , where Wilson’s Animal Hospital used to be before it moved to a building next door.

“This will provide 30 new purpose-built rental units, 10 per cent of which will be market affordable,” Alicia Monteith, principal at Monterra Planning Consultants and speaking on behalf of the developers, told councillors.

“The proposal is an efficient use of existing municipal infrastructure within a built-in area on an underutilized vacant lot within the identified intensification corridor.”

Monteith said there will be four studio units, each about 42 squ

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