Prime piece of land with some of the best views in the Lower Mainland. The massive Cypress Village project was seemingly approved in June, but it came back for one final debate this week and passed by a slim 4-3 vote.

A plan, decades in the making, to add hundreds of acres of parkland and build a new, dense neighbourhood of almost 7,000 residents and businesses off Cypress Bowl Road cleared its final regulatory hurdle at West Vancouver council Monday, by a margin of one vote.

Council already substantively debated and approved British Pacific Properties’ plans for Cypress Village in June. But when the phased development agreement, which governs how the lands will be built out over the next 20 years, came up for its final adoption on Monday, three council members made the rare move of reopening the debate.

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