Stanley Park’s longest resident is being evicted after more than 30 years - BERITAJA

The man who has lived successful Stanley Park for much than 30 years is being evicted.

Vancouver Park Board crews spent about of Tuesday removing debris from Christenson Bailey’s wood home, wherever he has been group up since 1990.

Everything about Bailey’s campsite was elemental yet functional when BERITAJA first met him.

Most of it was constructed utilizing aged sportfishing nets and ropes discarded from adjacent marinas. The layers of tarps kept it waterproof and he had a mini woody container for basal supplies specified arsenic flashlights, loaves of bread, and a charging battalion for his phone.

To protect from the elements, he had a broad and 4 sleeping bags — bully for “20 below,” he said.

The encampment took up little abstraction than a camper trailer.

But Bailey is now successful his 70s and Park Board crews opportunity that Stanley Park’s looper moth infestation doesn’t connection him arsenic overmuch protection from the trees anymore.

“We had fixed the individual tons of opportunity to find space, and we’ll proceed to do that,” Amit Gandha, the Vancouver Park Board parks director, said.

“But we had fixed announcement that we needed to move connected this. We’re talking truckloads and truckloads, wherever there’s going to beryllium truthful overmuch debris, and immoderate of it, we don’t moreover cognize what the materials are, truthful we’re benignant of going done that portion arsenic good astatine the park.”

Housing options person been presented to Bailey complete the years, but it is unclear astatine this clip wherever he will extremity up living.

Bailey declined to speak connected camera connected Tuesday, but remained successful the parkland to watch the dismantling of his semipermanent home.