With bulldozers moving in, Kitsilano residents near the Sen̓áḵw project say the city is proceeding behind a cloud of confidentiality.
Sen̓áḵw will help resolve the city’s housing crisis, the website claims, because it’s being built on “reserve land, with the Squamish Nation in the driver’s seat: no drawn-out approvals or permitting delays.”
Even though city officials have been negotiating for two years to provide infrastructure to Sen̓áḵw, the statement said, “there is no timeline” on when staff or council will engage with residents on transportation or other issues. In regard to aThis advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
However, Munro said “there is nothing stopping the city from consulting about how the residents of the city would like to have their resources deployed … in support of a development of this scale and density.” Jeremy Braud, whose home is close to the project, said Kits Point residents generally feel “a lot of good will” toward the Sen̓áḵw development. But he worries the lack of transparency is creating a “public relations disaster. If I don’t know what’s going on in my backyard, I think the worst.”
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