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Somerset Ward has the second highest crime rate in Ottawa, according to a police report released late last month.

Somerset city council candidate George Guirguis is threatening to sue the city for ignoring senior citizens who say they feel unsafe living with drug addicts and prostitutes in a MacLaren Street apartment building.

Area residents are appealing to the Ontario Municipal Board over the approval of a Charlesfort Development’s Kent Street building project that contravenes zoning bylaws.

Some Centretown community members are fighting the city’s proposed redevelopment of Jack Purcell and St. Luke’s Parks with a petition despite general support at two public meetings for the redevelopment plans.