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A proposal for a three-building, multi-storey dormitory development to house 340 university students in the heart of Olde Sandwich Towne is raising the ire of heritage-minded residents.

“We want to do things the right way in Sandwich, so when we see this on paper, it’s like a slap in the face,” said Terry Kennedy, a lifelong Sandwich resident. “To see this type of dormitory ghetto is not at all what the people of Sandwich Towne have in mind.”

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Rumours of the plan had been circulating for weeks among residents in the historic west-end community. But news of a submission to the city of an application for the large-scale development to be located at the community’s primary intersection of Sandwich Street and Mill Street has sparked anger.

“You are losing land to absentee landlords, losing heritage buildings with this and we are all about our heritage,” said Kennedy, who has already written a letter to the city against the proposal. “You have a lot of people here who for years have been working towards that — not something like this,” he added.