A dispute over a housing development being built over sacred native land in Vancouver could soon be resolved.
The provincial government has offered the Musqueam band nearly $ 5 million to negotiate a land swap with the owners of the Marpole Midden project.
Band member Cecelia Point says the developer must now agree to give up the site of ancestral burial site.
“This makes it a lot simpler, so now they will just give us the cash and then, we can purchase this property from the developer. So we are going to stay put until the developer also accepts our offer and we have assurances he’s going to move off the property.”
Point says the $ 4.8-million is money owed to the band involving a previous deal linked to the South Fraser Perimeter Road project.
More money is expected to come from another agreement regarding the Evergreen transit line.
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