Staff say the land is 'necessary' to build the overpass over the CN Rail corridor.
Burnaby council voted unanimously to expropriate a half-acre of land to make way for the Holdom overpass.
The land on the eastern portion of a 2.2-acre property at 5595 Roy St., bordering Holdom Avenue, is owned by numbered company 1044451 B.C. Ltd.
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