Posted Oct 1, 2022, 8:04 PM
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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
arent they also going under buildings in this first section while turning under broadway? i imagine that must have some implications for both the buildings, and possible future buildings.
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Some of them are already suing the project.
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The Brunswick apartment building at 396 East 2nd Ave. in Vancouver. Photo Mike Howell
The claim concerns the government requiring land under The Brunswick apartment building at 396 East 2nd Avenue for tunnelling purposes. An advanced payment of $461,000 was paid to the owners Sept. 17, 2020.
“As of the filing of the notice of civil claim, the project had not yet commenced on the subject property, and the full physical and financial impacts of the project and the loss of the expropriated rights were not yet fully known,” the claim said.
“It is anticipated that the subject property and the apartment building will suffer physical damage as a consequence of the project, and it is anticipated that the owner will suffer considerable financial losses, costs and damages.”
The Brunswick is a 53-unit, four-storey apartment building built in the late 1970s. It is located just south of Great Northern Way, behind St. Francis Xavier school. The property is a short walk from what will be the Great Northern Way-Emily Carr station.
A government map of the subway route shows the tunnel will descend from Main and Broadway and run under Brunswick Street, which is located on the west side of the apartment building.
In an interview last week, Cooke said he understood there were no immediate plans to redevelop The Brunswick, but noted any future redevelopment could affect construction of a deep underground parkade.
There could also be restrictions about what the owners could develop on the surface of the property, knowing a subway was running underneath the land, he said.
“There might be rules like, ‘You may never build over this tunnel,’ or ‘You may not put a parking lot over this tunnel,” — or sometimes, more vaguely, ‘You may not do anything over our tunnel without getting our prior written consent, which we may never give you if we don’t think it’s reasonable,’” Cooke said.
He said he filed a claim July 15 to meet the one-year limitation set out in the Expropriation Act. So basically, Cooke added, “it’s just like a foot in the door to make sure that the owners’ rights are protected.”
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https://biv.com/article/2021/08/vancouve...egal-action-over-broadway-subway-project
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