The Ross School site can now be sold in two lots after city council unanimously voted to split the land in two.
The proposal from the Prairie South School Division was considered by the Municipal Planing Commission on March 2 and sent to City Council on Monday for approval.
The idea is to subdivide the existing school site from vacant surplus land to tender and sell the two sites separately.
Ross School closed in 2007 and has been vacant since that time and the school division has tendered the property in the past without success.
Coun. Don Mitchell said the proposal was the division of the school site so the school itself may be addressed as a separate issue in terms of development options and the land attached to the school will be opened up for potential residential development.
Coun. Brian Swanson, a member of the school board, said it was expected the land will be put up for tender in May and that the date was coming up fairly quickly.
After Monday’s meeting, he told the Times-Herald tenders will be advertised for shortly.
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