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Originally Posted by @Champlain
It is so nice to hear good things like these going around, right here in New Brunswick.  |
Indeed! I think all 3 major cities (and the smaller ones in the North as well) need to focus in the next 20 years on reducing their sprawling tendencies and revitalizing their urban cores, especially with the rising costs of fuel and the shortage of land making suburban communities less and less sustainable. We need to beat these trends before they get out of control and end up beating us.
I know Saint John is amongst the highest ranked cities in the country for sustainable planning (#2 I think) and I have been a part of many of those planning processes, but it is time to stop talking about it and start implementing those ideas before it is too late. I get encouraged seeing how far Uptown SJ has come in the past 5-8 years, but it has so much un-tapped potential that I think it can become the premiere urban area in Atlantic Canada if we get our act together.