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Crab Park at Portside — CRAB, if you want to get historical because it initially stood not for decapod crustaceans but for Create a Real Available Beach — is a hidden emerald-green gem on the waterfront of the Downtown Eastside.

The park has also been called Can’t Reach A Beach and making it easier to do so is one of four proposals on Park Board Commissioner John Irwin’s wish-list he’ll present at Monday’s board meeting.

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“They’re not just my concerns,” Irwin, a professor of geography at Simon Fraser University, said. “They’re residents’ concerns.”

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A Port rendering of what the seven-acre Crab Park will look like once the project is complete shows marginal impact on the park.

“But I think the impact is probably going to be fairly noticeable for people down there,” Irwin said. “And then of course everyone living in that area is going to have to live with the three to four years of construction, noise and disruption.”