A powerful and sustained earthquake could liquefy the soil on which a new St. Paul’s Hospital is going to be built.
Planners with the City of Vancouver are alive to this danger, and have imposed conditions to ensure the resilience of the health facility that will be developed at the False Creek Flats.
The risk was one of the items contained in a recent report to council by planner Karen Hoese.
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