Indigenous-led housing projects aim to transform Vancouver’s west side GlobeBC
Land below the Burrard Bridge in Vancouver, on April 9, 2019. The parcels of land include the 36.5-hectare Jericho Lands in Point Grey and the 4.5-hectare site of the Squamish reserve land next to the bridge.The shoreline neighbourhoods that provide Vancouver’s west side with its popular beaches and abundant green space will undergo a notable transformation over the next decade as developers build significant housing projects on land that had previously been off-limits.
“There will be a preconceived notion of what will happen because of what people say about Indigenous people being keepers of the land,” says Wade Grant, a former Musqueam councillor and adviser to past premier Christy Clark. Mr. Grant is familiar with Musqueam real estate plans on both city and university-endowment lands.
Some residents fear it means that Indigenous groups, anxious to cash in on the city’s real estate madness in order to get money for their nations’ members, will pack in as much building as possible. Others have faith that Indigenous groups will do something markedly different from Vancouver’s commercial developers.“They will be significant points of change in a broader context,” Vancouver’s former chief planner Brent Toderian says. “But a lot will depend on how well they are done.
At least one well-known non-Indigenous development company is partnering with the nations. Westbank has been given the nod for the Squamish project at the foot of the bridge; MST has not yet chosen a partner or partners. But, he said, the open houses that the MST group is putting on to get community feedback on the Jericho Lands is showing everyone that public input is worthwhile.“From what MST has experienced, the open-house process has the benefit of improving the project.”The school gyms and auditoriums in the area were filled this week with people hoping for information.
author Charles Montgomery, the audience heard a lot about the benefits of well-planned density and how it could help the west side.
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