By now, most informed people want the Garden City Lands to remain as green space with ecological and/or food-producing uses with community benefit. If everyone acts with a high level of competence and goodwill, how will the upcoming renegotiations under the basic Garden City Lands agreement (“the MOU”) play out toward that goal?
1. Richmond’s city council, [...]
Archive for January, 2009
Garden City Utopia
January 26, 2009The parties’ relative ability to wait
January 25, 2009With the need for renegotiation of the basic Garden City Lands agreement (“the MOU”) comes the question of how long each of the parties would be prepared to wait to get a favourable outcome. The four parties are the federal government, Canada Lands Company CLC Limited (CLC), the Musqueam Indian Band (Band), and the City [...]
Update – January 20, 2009
January 20, 2009The Garden City Lands story has paused for over a month. At the end of 2008, the future of that 136-acre green space in Richmond Centre took a turn for the better with the expiry of a bad agreement that would have put high-density construction on that fertile wetland. Judging from a Richmond Council vote [...]
