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Protesters block road at tank farm Cornelia Naylor
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Anti-pipeline protesters held up five dump trucks headed for the Trans Mountain tank farm on Burnaby Mountain last Friday. About a half-dozen demonstrators carrying Extinction Rebellion signs and wearing ponchos emblazoned with the environmental movement’s logo were on Underhill Avenue near Broadway for about an hour, occasionally stepping onto the street and blocking trucks coming up the hill for several minutes. The purpose? “Shut down TMX because we don’t need it and it’s damaging our kids’ future,” North Shore resident Gordon Cornwall told the NOW. With 75 trucks travelling up and down Underhill each day during the tank farm expansion, one protester said holding up each one for even one minute creates a significant disruption. Cornwall described the tank farm as a “hazard for the community.” In total, protesters stopped five trucks Friday in what Cornwall called a “selective and kind of learning exercise.”
Road blocked: Protesters stop dump trucks on Nov. 15. PHOTO CORNELIA NAYLOR
HEAD-ON COLLISION: Two men and a woman, all in their 20s, were taken to hospital in critical condition Sunday after their Volkswagen Golf collided head-on with a Honda Pilot on the Kensington Avenue overpass above Lougheed Highway. The driver of the Honda, a 55-year-old man, was taken to hospital with serious injuries. Police have said speed was a factor but haven’t released details about what caused the crash. Investigators are still looking for witnesses or anyone with dashcam video taken between 3 and 3:30 p.m. on Kensington between Canada Way and Lougheed. PHOTO SHANE MACKICHAN
HOUSING
Council gets an earful over rezonings Residents say they don’t trust council to protect renters from being demovicted Kelvin Gawley
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Over the course of a marathon public hearing Tuesday evening, one thing became clear: many Burnaby residents don’t trust their local government. Nine rezoning proposals were up for discussion, but it was the final four that attracted dozens of speakers who stretched the meeting over five hours. The four proposed developments were the first major Metrotown projects
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to come to a public hearing since Mayor Mike Hurley initiated a moratorium on development while the city recalibrated its housing policies. The four projects would add hundreds of new condos and rental apartments to the neighbourhood – but they would also demolish more than 200 rental apartments and displace hundreds of residents. These are the projects: ! A 35-storey condo building atop a six-storey rental apartment podium
with 42 “affordable” rental apartments would replace a 42-unit, four-storey rental apartment building at 4960 Bennett St. (between Marlborough and Nelson avenues). According to BC Assessment, the property sold for $15 million in 2016 and was valued at $36 million as of July 2018. ! A 37-storey tower with 332 condos and a six-storey rental apartment building would replace a three-storey low-rise apartment building at 6525 Telford Ave. All but one of the existing 54 apart-
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ments are already vacant, according to the city.The rental building includes the required 54 replacement apartments, plus 12 market rental units.The property was assessed at $51 million as of July 2018. ! A 43-storey tower with 409 condos, 15 townhouses and a six-storey, 92-unit non-market rental building would replace a rental apartment building at 6444 Willingdon Ave. According to BC Assessment, the property is currently home to a four-storey, 72-unit
apartment building and is valued at $51 million. ! A 34-storey tower with both strata and rental apartments and a four-storey “affordable” rental building would replace a detached home and three apartment buildings with a total of 36 rental units on three adjacent Marlborough Avenue lots.The developer wants to build 218 condos and 47 market rental units in the mixed-tenure building and 41 non-market homes in the other. Continued on page 8
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