NNN’s top 10 of 2017: Voters resoundingly reject events centre proposal
NANAIMO — 80-20.
A result even the most staunch opponents would not have predicted, as Nanaimo voters decisively shut down the City’s proposal to borrow $80 million to build an events centre on the downtown waterfront.
Eighty per cent of the nearly 24,000 ballots cast in the March referendum rejected the project.
After a brief strategic planning process with limited public input in the summer of 2016, an events centre appeared on Council’s list of priority projects.