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BRENT RICHTER
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A plan, decades in the making, to add hundreds of acres of parkland and build a new, dense neighbourhood of almost 7,000 residents and businesses off Cypress Bowl Road cleared its final regulatory hurdle at West Vancouver council last week, by a margin of one vote.
Council already substantively debated and approved British Pacific Properties’ plans for Cypress Village in June. But when the phased development agreement, which governs how the lands will be built out over the next 20 years, came up for its final adoption on Nov. 25, three council members made the rare move of reopening the debate. Couns. Peter Lambur, Christine Cassidy and Linda Watt said they couldn’t be convinced the municipality was getting the best possible deal. Lambur said he wasn’t comfortable with the upfront costs the district would be paying for the acquisition of the 262-acre Eagleridge land and restrictive covenants on what the district may do with its own lands nearby. “My worry is not with the fundamentals of the plan itself. It has to do with the inability to modify the terms of the agreement in any way, and to me, that erodes the resiliency of the plan that’s necessary to see it through to its intended conclusions 20 years from now,” he said. Continued on A35
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