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A judge has dismissed an appeal from a group of Marpole residents frustrated by the city’s plans to build temporary modular housing in the neighbourhood.

It is the second blow to the group’s legal attempts to block the 78-unit temporary modular housing project on Heather Street.

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The Caring Citizens of Vancouver Society had previously filed a petition in December, claiming the city had failed to provide proper notice of a public hearing. When that petition was dismissed in January, the group filed an appeal.

In a decision dated March 9, B.C. Court of Appeal Justice David Franklin Tysoe dismissed the appeal, noting the city had adequately provided notice.

“I do not think that the small amount of opposition at the hearing indicates, as the appellant contends, that the notice was inadequate,” said Tysoe in his reasons for judgment.

“An equally plausible inference is that members of the public were generally unopposed to the amendment until it later became apparent that the social housing was to be located in their neighbourhood.”