Nicholas Lato is a youngish father.

He has a child at Prince of Wales School and is concerned about the impending demolition of buildings at General Electric Vernova, just a stone’s throw from the school and not that far from his home on Frederick Avenue.

He is not a man to mince words. At least he wasn’t when he spoke to council last Monday about its recent decision to reverse an earlier decision to apply heritage designations to four buildings on the site leased by BWXT Nuclear Energy.

Coun. Lesley Parnell reminded him that a decision had been made on removing the designations.

“Yes, and you screwed up,” Lato shot back. “And you need to fix it. You need to figure out what levers you still have after you gave it away.”

Between Monday night’s council meeting and the general committee meeting a week before, council spent roughly four hours........

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