A dispute over whether a Prince George resident can store shipping containers on her property is heading to trial.
On Feb. 25, a B.C. Supreme Court Justice will hear arguments from the city and Colleen Geisser over a conflict that dates back to August 2010 when the containers were found at 3505 Pierreroy Road.
Unless the containers are completely enclosed, the city has maintained Geisser cannot keep them there. Geisser, in turn, refused to comply with a written notice requiring her to have them removed by December 2010.
The city subsequently filed a notice of claim that argues containers are prohibited under a restrictive covenant put in place in 1991 when the property was under different ownership and that it remained in place when Geisser bought the site in 2007.
The city also argues the property remains subject to zoning that "stipulates no shipping container or cargo containers are permitted on such a property unless the shipping containers or cargo containers are completely enclosed within a building or structure."
Geisser responded with a counterclaim in which she effectively argues the containers form a warehouse storage building and was grandfathered when zoning for the site, as well as 215 others around the city, was changed by city council.
