One city manager is suggesting it could be used instead as a prayer space
The people who run the Ronald A. Irwin Civic Centre don't want us partying in their seventh-floor penthouse.
"Staff do not recommend pursuing the conversion of this space to a multi-use event space or other commercial use," Carl Rumiel, the city's director of engineering, says in a report prepared for next week's city council meeting. "Staff reviewed this resolution with the city's accessibility coordinator and confirmed that the seventh floor's accessibility is not to a standard that could include the general public.
"Alternative lift devices, such as chair lifts in the stairwell, are not allowed under the Ontario Building Code for use in a building such as the civic centre.
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