What to do with the University Endowment Lands

[chowhou]

Always ask yourself whether if you're being an environmentalist (protect the future) or if you're being a conservative (protect the past) in these conversations about greenspace and development.

What purpose does Pacific Spirit Park serve between Chancellor Boulevard and 16th? Is it a well used municipal park? Is it an important biological reserve? Is it contributing to the well being of the local residents or the broader city in its current form?

I'd argue it isn't really doing anything well right now. The region has more than enough forested parkspace for the local residents, it's not a particularly important ecological area, and as other posters have said it will have an expensive transit extension pass through it without much value provided to or by the area. It's a foregone conclusion that the Musqueam Development Corp is going to have shovels in the ground of the golf course by the end of the century, so I don't see why you wouldn't have development in the area with an associated Skytrain station by then.

It doesn't have to be residential development; As a previous poster said, Central Park in Metrotown is the exact same but instead of being a wall of forest it's an urban trail, it's a baseball diamond, it's a lawn bowling club, it's a stadium, it's a playground, it's general purpose lawn space. It has life.