Burnaby sold off public land in 2021. Now residents are wondering if that area, instead of a park, could have been used for a waste facility.
Burnaby city hall watchers are questioning why the city has proposed putting a green waste facility on park land instead of a similarly-sized nearby plot of city-owned land it sold in 2021.
Gibbs said he criticized that decision, since Mayor Mike Hurley had said in 2019 the city doesn’t believe in selling city-owned land. The acquisition was hailed as “an ecologically significant contribution to the legacy embodied in the public ownership of lands within the Burnaby Fraser Foreshore Park system,” in a staff report at the time.
The city also plans to preserve other habitats around the city at a three-to-one ratio of what would be affected by the GROW facility to offset the environmental impact to Fraser Foreshore.
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