A prime piece of property is being created by Snaw-naw-as First Nation along the busy Island Highway corridor just north of Nanaimo.

Huge amounts of fill will be trucked in to raise the land, situated at the intersection with Lantzville Road to highway level. Chief Brent Edwards said that the current work would bring water, sewer, and drainage to the site.

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“We’ve got a traffic light that has to be put in,” he said. “We’re excited by what all this means for our economic development.”

Up to 40,000 vehicles pass the site every day. The highway, and the adjacent Esquimalt and Nanaimo (E&N) railroad line, virtually cuts the Snaw-naw-as reserve in half. Any new development, along with the traffic light, will not only bring economic opportunities, but also make for safer community access to the upper and lower parts of the reserve.

Meanwhile, Snaw-naw-as filed a civil lawsuit in BC Supreme Court in January against the Island Corridor Foundation and the Attorney General of Canada over the E&N rail line. The lawsuit asks for the return of land that was taken in the last century to build the railway.