A seniors’ living complex and Catholic nun convent project in Mississauga that has raised the ire of residents in the Sherwood Forrest neighbourhood could now have fewer units and lower building heights, if it goes ahead.

The complex is planned to include assisted living suites and rental units and could be built on lands currently owned by the Carmelite Sisters, where the nuns ran a retirement residence until 2015.

The new plan, which has not been formally submitted to city staff as of Feb. 24, would see 60 fewer units, dropping the total count from 348 to 288, according to a presentation by project architect Michael Spaziani to Mississauga's planning committee.

Maximum building heights for the proposed seniors’ complex and convent would also be reduced from six to five storeys under the new plan.

The presented changes follow a rocky Dec. 4, 2019 community meeting where residents raised concerns that the project would create too much traffic and was too large for the neighbourhood.

Spaziani said the changes were to make the project a better fit in the neighbourhood.

“We're on a direction, we're willing to do what needs to be done to make this a compatible development in this community,” he said at the Feb. 24 planning meeting.

Local ward Coun. Matt Mahoney said that changes are “moving in the right direction, but I think they've got to move a little further.”

He said it was difficult to comment on the revised plan, because the developer had not discussed it with him or formally submitted it to the city.

“Nobody is against seniors, nobody is against the sisters,” he said. “We all support it, we all know we need seniors’ residences but it's a land use planning issue.”