Burnaby Now September 30 2016

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Missing student caught on video

PEOPLE 11

SFU prof finds poetry in protest

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‘I can’t bring back 100-year-old trees’ Resident shocked by trees cut down to make path wheelchairaccessible By Jeremy Deutsch

jdeutsch@burnabynow.com

For years, Parvin Chami has fought to protect the trees and green space behind her Burnaby home for future generations. Chami, the chair of the Friends of Discovery Park neighbourhood group, lives on Kalyk Avenue not far from Burnaby Hospital. She always assumed if any work was going to happen on the trees in the area, she’d get a courtesy call. The longtime Burnaby resident knew that some work was going to take place along the path, which leads from a laneway on Kalyk to Gilmore Way. But Chami was shocked to see exactly what was happening at the site Wednesday. A number of trees along the path had been cut down by construction crews. Continued on page 4

TREES GONE: Burnaby resident Parvin Chami lives on Kalyk Avenue and is unhappy about trees being cut down in the area to make way for an accessible path. Chami is the chair of the Friends of Discovery Park neighbourhood group and is a longtime advocate for greenspace in her area. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR

HOUSING COSTS

City blasts province for $1.53 billion in taxes By Jeremy Deutsch

jdeutsch@burnabynow.com

As the number of real estate purchases by foreign buyers continues to drop in Burnaby, city politicians are once again taking aim at

the provincial government for the affordable housing crunch facing the region. City council recently approved a pair of recommendations, including a request that Metro Vancouver gather municipal views on

the province’s new Housing Priority Initiatives Fund. They’ve also asked that the provincial government consult with local governments on data collection and analysis as it relates to the property transfer tax.

But it was the information inside the staff report related to the recommendation that got city council talking. According to the report, the province collected more than $1.53 billion in prop-

ty transfer tax was having a larger effect on the rising cost of housing then the costs cities are adding on to new developments like development cost charges. “They (the province) take Continued on page 9

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