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Metro Van taking Township to court
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University District plan fails to comply with regional growth strategy, says district JEFF NAGEL Black Press
Metro Vancouver is taking the Township of Langley to court to make the municipality comply with the regional growth strategy, saying the local council’s defiance of the plan threatens to set a dangerous precedent. At issue is the Township’s vision for the so-called University District, a large 180-hectare area named after nearby Trinity Western University and earmarked for future institutional expansion by TWU and related development. Township council last month rezoned the land near Highway 1 and Glover Road, much of which is in the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), but the legal challenge by Metro aims to quash the bylaw. Jack Metro argues the municipality Froese must abide by the new regional growth strategy. It requires the land use change go to a vote of the regional board because it calls for more intensive development of homes outside the regional plan’s urban containment boundary, contrary to Metro’s goal of concentrating growth in town centres and limiting sprawl in more rural and agricultural areas. The Township contends a two-year transition period means it is operating under the old regional plan — not the new one adopted two years ago — and can legally make the land-use change now. “We feel it should be the municipality that deals with land-use issues,” Langley Township Mayor Jack Froese said. “We are very confident with the case law our lawyers have reviewed that we are doing the right thing.” Metro directors say a Langley victory in the dispute could leave other areas of farmland or green space more vulnerable to development.
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