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WEDNESDAY
JANUARY 29 2014 www.burnabynewsleader.com
Cliff Avenue Caelian went to New West to play the Royal City Blues in U-14 Gold soccer. See Page A16
Shape looks to rezone first tower Public hearing set for Feb. 25 Wanda Chow
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Linden Wong, 6, brings his own Chinese lion hand puppet as he enjoys a performance of a full-size lion by a troupe from the Yau Kung Moon Athletic Institute at Chinese New Year festivities at Brentwood Town Centre on Saturday.
Overflow crowd at pipeline workshop Additional meeting scheduled for Feb. 9 Wanda Chow and Mario Bartel wchow@burnabynewsleader.com
So many people showed up at Saturday’s information meeting on participating in the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion process that a second session has been scheduled for Feb. 9, said Burnaby-Douglas MP Kennedy Stewart. Stewart estimated there were about 400 people in attendance at Confederation Community Centre,
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and said some people had to be turned away. The meeting was to explain how people can apply to participate in the process and was scheduled after the National Energy Board (NEB) cancelled its own local meetings last fall and opted for online sessions instead. “So far it’s the only meeting of this type,” he said by phone from Ottawa Monday. “The NEB should be doing these things but they’re not.”
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Last month, Kinder Morgan filed its 15,000-page formal application with the NEB to almost triple the capacity of its Trans Mountain pipeline between Edmonton and Burnaby, which would significantly increase tanker traffic in Burrard Inlet as it increases exports of oil sands crude to overseas markets. Stewart stressed the workshop was open to people on both sides of the issue—he saw people there he recognized from all political stripes—and focused on how the
review process works with an eye to helping people apply for intervenor status before the NEB’s Feb. 12 deadline. “There will be plenty of time for people to protest, now is not the time,” he said. Stewart and his staff originally planned to take people from the meeting to his nearby constituency office, which has been turned into an unofficial registration centre, to help people submit their applications. Please see PLAN B, A3
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The first tower being proposed in the transformation of Brentwood mall could give Burnaby a big boost in rental housing. “A total of 591 apartment units are proposed, 300 of which are intended to be purpose-built rental units to be owned and operated by the developer, Shape Properties Corp. and their funding partners,” said a city staff report. Shape Properties, which owns the mall, has applied for a rezoning of the southwest corner of the 28-acre mall site to allow for a 53-storey tower on top of a threestorey commercial podium for which it earlier applied for a rezoning. The project comes after the Brentwood Site Conceptual Master Plan, which permits towers with a maximum height of 70 storeys, received final approvals from Burnaby council last September. Please see TOWER, A4