Yukon realtors are again calling for an end to the city's green space bylaws.

Mike Racz, president of the Yukon Real Estate Association, said in a recent interview he'd like to see an end to the green space referendum and plebiscite bylaws now that council has the legal authority to do so.

'I think they're a waste of taxpayers' time and taxpayers' money,' he told the Star. 'I would like to see them scrapped.'

The veteran realtor said he feels the bylaws cause unnecessary delays and are further stressing the already-dire situation of residential lot availability in the city.

There are currently no urban residential lots available in Whitehorse.

Racz said without an availability of lots and reasonable time frames to get them online, the city can expect to lose tradespeople.

'The housing industry is one of the biggest wage producers other than government.'

The referendum and plebiscite green space bylaws, passed on June 12 and June 22, 2006 respectively, resulted from a successful petition spearheaded by Carole Bookless and the Porter Creek Community Association.

The bylaws, according to city officials, must be on the books for at least a year before they can be amended or eliminated.

Robert Fendrick, the city's director of operations, said last month that to scrap or amend the city's green space bylaws, council would have to bring forward another bylaw.

City administration, he said, has received no direction from council to look into the bylaws.

According to results of May's city-wide vote, 12 per cent 1,379 people in the plebiscite and 1,380 in the referendum of the city's 11,150 eligible voters participated in the votes.

The plebiscite on the lower Porter Creek bench green space plan, according to the city, met with 82.6 per cent approval and the referendum on development in an Arkell greenbelt was approved by 67.4 per cent.

Last month, a petition was filed in the Yukon Supreme Court to have the green space bylaws scrapped.

The petition was filed by Alacrity Enterprises Inc.

Mike Gau, the city's planning manager, said in June the next urban residential lots coming on the market are expected to be in Takhini North in 2009.

According to the Yukon government, there are more than 100 country residential lots scheduled to be released this summer.

Mayor Bev Buckway said last week council has discussed the bylaws but has made no decision on what actions, if any, they will take.

'We have casually discussed the implications around that, but there's nothing further with that.

'We have had reaction from some people in the public that were interested in getting a petition together on that,' she said.