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Merivale Road needs a blessing but Coun. Keith Egli doesn’t think a self-storage warehouse is its saviour.

“God knows Merivale Road needs help,” Egli said Thursday during a planning committee meeting where councillors were considering a proposal for a new self-storage building at the gateway to his Knoxdale-Merivale ward.

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Dymon Storage has been on a tear building facilities in Ottawa and the company’s eye is now on land at 1375 Clyde Ave. in the so-called Merivale triangle bound by Merivale Road and Baseline Road.

No one lives in the triangle; it’s virtually all commercial use, so another commercial development wouldn’t be out of line.

However, some members of the planning committee struggled with allowing Dymon’s application for a zoning change to allow a six-storey storage facility and a restaurant.

Egli isn’t a member of the planning committee, but he urged colleagues to vote down the application, especially since 10 community associations have indicated the proposal doesn’t, in the words of decluttering guru Marie Kondo, “spark joy.”