Yellowknife's Aurora College campus looks for parking

Yellowknife's Northern United Place, home of the city'sAurora College campus and residence,has plans for a new parking lot.

The buildinglost access to 50 parking spots last month when the city closed off the lot for the construction of theBetty House, a transitional housing facility for homeless women.Since then, students and residents of the college building have had to find other places to park.

Gail Leonardis, Northern United Place'sproperty manager,says plans are in the works for up to 26 new parking spots.

"We're looking to take the property that we own on the other side of Northern United Placeand turn it into a parking lot so that we can provide some of that lost parking for the users of the building," she said.

The building, commonly referred to as the littlebrown house, will be demolished this fall ifcity council approves the property to be rezoned as a parking lot.