Souris gives trailer home reprieve

Souris town council has voted in favour of allowing a mobile home owner to keep his trailer in the town for the next six months.

The P.E.I. town had earlier refused to hook up the trailer to municipal services because a bylaw restricts older mobile homes from being moved into the municipality. The owners of the Souris trailer park fought and lost an appeal of the bylaw. This week they presented a petition to council asking for a special permit for the trailer.

Deputy Mayor Denis Thibodeau told CBC News Wednesday that with winter on its way, council voted to give the owner a reprieve.

"The compromise is such that the trailer owner will be served a removal order, but it will be six months in duration," said Thibodeau.

"So it will give him a six-month period to remove his trailer. In the meantime, the town will hook up his water and sewer so that he can spend the winter there, type thing. Just compassionate, you know, this fellow had no place to stay."

Thibodeau said that when the six months are up the trailer must be moved out of town. He said council is holding firm to its policy of not allowing any more mobile homes into the area.