VANCOUVER — A massive Vancouver housing development spearheaded by the Squamish Nation has cleared a legal hurdle after a B.C. Supreme Court judge rejected a challenge by a residents' association over lack of consultation.
The Kits Point Residents Association had been seeking to have the Senakw project's services agreement between the First Nation and the City of Vancouver declared unlawful.
He said the nation was optimistic about the case because it followed a"rigorous process" of due diligence when it was trying to ink the services agreement with the city. Justice Carla Forth found that the association was indeed"impeded at every step in trying to obtain information about the process and how the services agreement came into existence."
Munro said the size of the development is"unprecedented," and she thought it necessary to raise issues about how the project will affect"livability" and traffic congestion in the neighbourhood."We felt that there were some important issues that nobody had been prepared to discuss with us and that's how we ended up here," she said."I think people should be concerned about it and we decided to push back.
But the Squamish people were"induced" to sell the Kitsilano reserve land by the provincial government in 1913, and were illegally removed before their homes were burned down.
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