12/12/2022 0 Comments Burnaby trans mountain tanks![]() Geller said the Expo land effort cost hundreds of millions of dollars and the bill could be similar on Burnaby Mountain. Geller, Corrigan and Yan all independently cited the land north of False Creek in Vancouver as an example of the costly and difficult task that is remediating and developing former industrial land. Vancouver architect and planner Michael Geller echoed many of the same concerns. “When you start getting into the weeds and getting into the details, that’s where it gets messy,” he said. That is just one among a litany of questions Beech has no answers to, Yan said. ![]() ![]() In addition to the issues around finding a new tank farm location, land remediation and city infrastructure, Yan pointed out the federal government would need to go through a First Nations review before it sold the land. “I don’t know how realistic it is but anything that would remove the tank farm from Burnaby Mountain would be good,” he said.Īndy Yan, housing expert and director of Simon Fraser University’s City Program, said he was “flabbergasted” by the idea when he first heard of it from the NOW. “So it doesn’t add much credibility to Terry Beech making these kinds of proposals.”Ĭorrigan’s challenger in this Saturday’s election, Mike Hurley, said he was broadly open to the idea, but he also questioned its feasibility. “Right now, the last we’ve heard from the Prime Minister is he’s rushing the project through to try to complete it in six months,” Corrigan said. “I wouldn’t even hazard a guess as to an order of magnitude number in order to do something like that,” Corrigan said, referring to the cost of the wholesale removal and development of the site.Ĭorrigan was also critical of Beech’s decision to go public with the idea when there is no indication the federal cabinet is actually behind it. The proposal would ultimately require the City of Burnaby to rezone the area from industrial to high-density residential, but Mayor Derek Corrigan said the only discussion he’s had with Beech about it lasted about 15 seconds at a public event. “So I think that the math could work.”īut no one else the NOW spoke to for this story shared Beech’s optimism.īurnaby North-Seymour MP Terry Beech. The views of Vancouver, Burrard Inlet and the United States “would be just unbelievable,” he said. “I’m short more information than I have, admittedly,” he said.īeech cited his past career as a real estate developer in saying he’s confident the land would be worth billions. He said he doesn’t know where the tank farm would go, how much it would cost to remediate the industrial site or how long it would take. He said the proposal became more viable when the federal government finalized its purchase of the existing pipeline and the expansion project in August, including the 13-tank site.īeech short on details, but confident in ideaīeech said he has raised the question with the CEO of Kinder Morgan Canada and Burnaby Mayor Derek Corrigan, but has not consulted experts on the feasibility of such an undertaking. The ideas are not sanctioned by Trudeau or cabinet, but serve as a launching point for “addressing the impact of the Trans Mountain expansion,” Beech wrote. ![]() The proposal is one of six in a “discussion paper” written by Beech to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and fellow Liberal caucus members. “Unless you get up there and look around, you don’t realize what a large parcel of land it is, and I couldn’t help but think, ‘If this was developed into real estate, it would be one of the most valuable properties in North America,’” he said. The Burnaby North–Seymour member of Parliament said the idea first came to him when he toured the site more than two years ago. He says it could be a “win-win-win” solution for everyone – it would alleviate the fears of a catastrophic fire on the mountain, make a huge windfall sale for the federal government and create new housing units in a region that desperately needs them. That’s Liberal MP Terry Beech’s big idea: upzone Burnaby Mountain for high-density residential and move the Trans Mountain pipeline tank farm somewhere else. We can create billions of dollars in land value, protect the local environment and make Burnaby residents safer all at once. ![]()
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