The development will have only 886 parking spots for cars and 4,477 spots for bikes
Right now, the T-shape plot of Squamish Nation land at the foot of the Burrard Bridge is virtually indistinguishable – but for a blue wire fence – from the expansive oceanside park and the parking lot of the distinctive and somewhat shabby apartment building it abuts.
The Squamish say the development is a slice of the city of the future. The 150-year, 250-page services agreement signed in May between the Nation and the City of Vancouver and released earlier this month indicates the development will have only 886 parking spots for cars and 4,477 spots for bikes. In addition, the Nation will spend $6.27-million to build a new road through federally owned Vanier Park, a decision that has particularly inflamed neighbours already uncomfortable with the size of the development and cut out of any of the planning because the project is on wholly owned Indigenous land.
A commercial broker who specializes in Indigenous developments also said he saw the transportation issues as the biggest challenge the services agreement has brought to light.
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