The Manitoba Municipal Board has ruled the city must work with the Granite Curling Club to come up with an “adequate” parking plan before a proposal for an affordable-housing building next door is approved.

In a 48-page decision released Friday, the board said it accepts that parking is needed to keep the club afloat; it understands the city wants to create housing on the curling club’s west parking lot to ease the housing crisis.

The board said it encourages the City of Winnipeg and the club to work together “to find accessible, adequate and ongoing parking” to replace any spots that would be lost to construction of the 111-unit building, which is to be constructed on municipal-owned land.

The curling club had argued if the development were to proceed, it would lose 45 of its 80 parkin

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