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Council cancels plan to remove parkland
Mayor says decision to put issue to‘alternative approval process’ was a ‘misjudgment’ Lauren Vanderdeen
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Burnaby city council has cancelled a voting process that was required to remove 21 acres of parkland at Fraser Foreshore Park to make way for a green waste facility (GRO). Mayor Mike Hurley said the decision to put the park removal to an “alternative approval process” (AAP), which required 16,250 Burnaby voters to vote in opposition, was a “misjudgment.” “While the project still remains a good project, and one we will clearly continue to look at other sites for, the public spoke clearly that they did not want it in that location,” he said to media after a special council meeting Monday. “We just collectively made a mistake on this,” Green Party Coun. Joe Keithley said at the meeting. Burnaby residents expressed significant Continued on page 3
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