Letizia Waddington

Metrotown Downtown Plan versus the Metrotown People’s Plan

The first public presentation of the People’s Plan for the development of Metrotown took place outside of Metrotown Library on January 16. While city staff inside the library displayed their pretentious “Draft Metrotown Downtown Plan,” members of Stop Demovictions Burnaby (SDB) set up an alternative development vision just outside the library’s front door called the People’s Plan. After two years of protesting Corrigan’s displacement policies, the Stop Demovictions Burnaby Campaign is developing an alternative vision for the development of the heart of working-class Burnaby. (…)