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London’s new mayor, a vocal backer of the controversial supervised drug use sites touted as one solution to the city’s drug crisis, may be backing off his support of one proposed permanent site.

Of the two locations pitched for supervised sites, Mayor Ed Holder was hesitant in a Free Press interview to embrace one slated for a public housing building in the SoHo, south of Horton Street, neighbourhood at 241 Simcoe St.

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Another is pitched for a York Street site that now houses a music store, which city council will be asked later this month to rezone to permit the drug-use site.

“Does it make sense to have one, (at) Bellone’s (John Bellone Musical Instruments), and maybe a second mobile site? I’m not so sure it’s Simcoe Street, but I think that’s a discussion we have to have,” Holder said during an interview on his first official day on the job.

He’s not reversing his earlier support for supervised sites in general, though, describing them as “so important for London’s sake.” People using the sites can take drugs under medical supervision, receive treatment for any overdoses and connect with support services such as rehabilitation.

A temporary site at 186 King St. has had more than 10,000 visits since it opened in February.