A good turnout for Tuesday night's High River by-election candidates forum at the Highwood Memorial Centre.

A lot of questions came up about the sticky issue of secondary suites and how to handle them

Michael Nychyk says there are a couple of issues to be discussed.

"I'm on a couple of council committees, we haven't delved into that in any great way, shape or form," he says. "Planning and Renewal is working with administration on the town by-law rewrite so those are some of the things that are coming up that we'll be discussing."

Terry Coleman doesn't like the fact every application has to go before council now.

"It's part of the Land Use By-law that's being revised, one of the person's tonight said it should have it's own by-law but I think it's all tied up in the Land Use By-law," Coleman says. "I think there's an easier way but we need to sit down and figure out what that is, I think council should be an appeal process but I think administration should be making the decision based on criteria that council's established."

Jamie Kinghore says it's a problem that by no means is limited to High River.

"It's all communities that are facing that issue and and with the economic downturn there's a lot of people in our community that are out of work and they just can't afford these expensvvvvive homes, we to find a way to provide affordable housing," he says.

Sandra Weibe says boarding houses are another whole issue.

"Are we talking about families or are we talking about roommates and once you become over ten people, regardless there other fire and safety regulations in place so there is things in place to take care of that as well," she says.

The by-election goes Monday October 17.

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