What began a few months ago a contentious dispute between a business and residents in a downtown apartment has continued into first and second readings of bylaws into noise and building bylaw amendments.

Coun. Brian Swanson spoke against the changes, pointing to an adage that individual case makes for poor law.

“All this arose out of one specific incident that I believe showed that the system worked, and we’ve responded with a whole bunch more paperwork and beaurocracy when the process actually functioned the way it was supposed to,” he said.

Coun. Dawn Luhning disagreed.

“To say it was one incident that happened is incorrect,” she said. “To say that the system worked is also incorrect. For it to have gone on as long as it did, there really was no resolution, to be quite frank for either party. It didn’t end well for either party.”

Luhning said that wasn't the case she tried her best to try to figure out how to resolve the situation.

“The areas that we’re trying to help, were running into issues that they couldn’t get past and they couldn’t resolve it for all parties involved,” she said. “So I’m not going to let this discussion end here with my colleague saying there was all this money spent because the system worked. It didn’t work.”

The bylaws were read twice at council's meeting Monday and will be brought again to the next meeting for third and final reading on June 10.