Almost three years and little-to-no progress later, the city is seeking to end its deal with the GNWT and Aurora College in regards to building a polytechnic university campus at Tin Can Hill.

In a packed city council chambers, councillors met on March 3 for a governance and priorities committee meeting to talk about cancelling the agreement. Aurora College and the territorial government are equally interested in the breakup, according to city manager Stephen Van Dine.

"They're not looking to realize that vision for that particular site any time soon," Van Dine said of the college.

The city approved construction of a new North Slave university campus on Tin Can Hill in 2022. Currently, the municipality also has no plans, nor proposals, to develop that land, Van Dine and Mayor Rebecca Alty noted. 

Still, the question remains of what to do with the property, and what can be done to help foster education in the city.

"We are very enthusiastic about the potential for the knowledge economy and the expansion of the campus that a polytechnic institute could bring for the city of Yellowknife," said Van Dine.

Numerous councillors voiced their support for ending the agreement. Coun. Ben Hendriksen pointed out another aspect of the conversation SA国际影视传媒� what to do with the land alternatively.

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Coun. Stacie Arden Smith echoed Hendriksen's remarks, noting that she too is opposed to any development at Tin Can Hill.

"I grew up on there," she said. "If we are going to develop it, let's develop it in terms of active trails where that greenspace maintains."

Council is expected to vote on whether to nix the agreement with Aurora College at the March 10 council meeting.

Tin Can Hill has its drawbacks for development. 

"Arsenic in the soil at the site of the proposed campus would currently pose an unacceptable health risk for students living in the proposed student housing and children up to five years old attending the proposed daycare more than three days a week," the GNWT stated in an environmental report it filed last December, although the government acknowledged that its findings are "moderately uncertain" and the risks have likely been overestimated.

Some Yellowknife residents who use the trail system at Tin Can Hill have spoken out against any development at the site.