Burnaby Mayor Mike Hurley is calling for a special meeting to reconsider the voting process that would allocate part of the city’s Fraser Foreshore Park into a compost facility.
In a statement, Hurley says the special meeting will be held Monday for the “reconsideration of the alternative approval process.”
On Feb. 27 council approved an Alternative Approval Process (AAP), a voting process where the city’s residents can vote to remove 8.5 hectares of Foreshore Park as a dedicated park and instead turn it into a green waste recycling facility. City staff says the planned facility would process up to 150,000 tons of waste from around the region every year.
The project called Green Recycling and Organics (GRO) would be an enclosed facility.
“We’ve been listening to the public, and it’s clear from what they’ve told us that they don’t support the trade-offs that the GRO project would require in its current form. Council has heard loud and clear that while this may be the right project, it is not the right location,” Hurley said in a statement.