Mayor Mike Hurley faces homeowner backlash over a draft Official Community Plan (OCP) that prioritizes park and school expansion, potentially re-designating residential areas as park or institutional land. While planners assure homeowners their existing zoning will remain unless they choose to rezone, residents fear property devaluation, restricted sales, and de facto expropriation.
Burnaby homeowners are up in arms about proposed changes to their properties’ land use , which could see their homes turned into park land, and now Mayor Mike Hurley has some explaining to do.
“If the proposed land-use designation is adopted, we risk losing everything we have built,” wrote Brentwood resident Ying Hang Li, who lives on Union Street north of École Alpha Secondary, an area where residential parcels have been marked as park and institutional .
Single- and two-family homes in Burnaby are now zoned as “R1 Small-Scale Multi-Unit Housing” multiplexes. Depending on where they are, owners can build up to a six-plex on the lot.
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