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Originally Posted by Roughneck
It's the same communities doing the complaining for both projects, the same notes get hit over and over whether it's 250 or 500 or 3000.
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Some of those are legitimate concerns though? I don't think it's peculiar that people don't want another tower put up in their neighbourhood, regardless of the infrastructure issues, which is pointed out here...
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Originally Posted by Bill Bumface
My opinion, is part of the problem is we're trying to make up for the problems of low density with very point solutions.
Massive towers actually make for pretty crappy neighbourhoods. The way a lot of them are done is just creating vertical suburbs where everyone is driving in and out of the tower.
Thinks like row housing and mid-rise over larger areas make for a lot nicer and more functional communities. Curry Barracks/Garrison Woods are great examples. We just need like 10 of those instead of these isolated spots rammed with towers and stores with surface parking. Obviously that's just way harder to pull off unless you end up with the lucky case of a military base in the inner city shutting down, so we shrug our shoulders and throw up more terrible towers.
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If this development was row-housing and the like, I think that the opposition to the project would be significantly less. Wo would live in a row house backing on to 14th Ave? Whole other discussion.
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Originally Posted by getbak
No, there are a lot of residences that require people to drive past Glenmore Landing to get to 14th Street. They aren't close to the BRT stop though. The closest residence to the BRT stop is over 400m away in a straight line (not including those in Haysboro because this won't impact them at all). In the grid part of the city, that's 2 and half blocks east-west or 4 blocks north-south.
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Haha, 400m is like 5 minutes for most people. That's just not a big deal to walk 5 minutes to a bus stop.