On 10 acres of land returned to the Squamish First Nation in Vancouver, British Columbia, a 6,000-unit residential development is rising, free from the city’s restrictive zoning laws that have made Vancouver one of North America’s least affordable places to live. The first tenants moved in at the end of May, and the project is designed to be carbon-neutral and nearly car-free, serving as a visible rebuke to the surrounding region of single-family homes. Regulations have so thoroughly drained officials of the power to approve construction that only Senakw’s special legal status as sovereign land made the project possible.
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