Southeast Vancouver gets set for development
Posted May 26, 2010 9:20 am.
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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – It stretches from the Fraser River, to Marine Way, between Boundary and Kerr. Tonight, at an open house, you can get a better sense of what the first neighbourhood park will look like in the coming East Fraserlands development.
When it’s finished, the neighbourhood will be a ‘complete community’ — that could one day even include access by light rapid transit.
Alan Duncan is an environmental planner with the Park Board. Tonight between 5:00pm and 8:00pm, the park board hosts the first open house on the proposed design for East Fraserlands Neighbourhood Park at the Killarney Community Centre.
This is the very first time they’ll have gone to the public after re-zoning for part of the East Fraserlands was approved. This is a chance to show the people some of the latest ideas and they’re looking for public feedback.
Eventually, it’s expected the area will be home to about 13,000 people, complete with a school, a shops, parks and waterfront access.
Duncan says one of the basic things they want to ensure is good transit access from day one. They are working with TransLink to make sure that happens. He says the very long term plan is to have a rail corridor going through the centre of it which could someday be developed to connect with the Canada Line.
He feels this could change the dynamic dramatically from what it is today.
