A controversial plan to borrow $90 million to address what the City of Nanaimo is calling critical upgrades to its public works yard is facing pushback from some residents.

The loan would cover upgrades to the fleet maintenance building, which is too small for modern garbage trucks and fire trucks, as well as improve on what the senior project manager Michael Lonsdale calls a "crude" administration building, which is not up to modern B.C. building code standards.