The proposed development plan would create 273 units of mixed-income housing.

After signs saying “no dogs allowed” went up, community members at a de facto dog run sprang into action.

Last October, we posted about the site where Bruce Monroe Elementary School once stood, highlighting the messy debate which had surfaced after the school was controversially demolished. In short: the community has been using the site as a park, but the city’s redevelopment RFP produced a single bid proposing two options — one a mixed-use development with a organic supermarket, a restaurant, a hardware store, apartments and town homes; the other, the option to rebuild the school with, perhaps, some housing on the side.

The future of the site on which Bruce Monroe Elementary School once stood has been a contentious matter for some time. And with each progressive step in the process, things have gotten messier and messier.