Some Langley, B.C. residents and environmental organizations are pushing back against a proposed expansion of an industrial development into a protected wetland area they say is being slowly destroyed.
Vancouver-based developer Beedie Group is offering $22.3 million for the Township of Langley to rezone 37.23 hectares (92 acres) of land, currently zoned as a golf course, allowing it to add 14.97 hectares of that land to the Gloucester Industrial Park just west of the municipality’s border with Abbotsford.
The Township estimates the additional 6.47 hectares of industrial building space would bring about 700 jobs to the area.
If passed, the proposal would also see the remaining 22.25 hectares of land — jointly owned with Metro Vancouver — added
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