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Old Posted Feb 8, 2014, 7:07 PM
Uhuniau Uhuniau is offline
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- Extend the O-Train to Hull. (Insert your reasons why this is a bad idea here). Yes, I see your objections, and they are full of utter crap. If they build it, people will use it, at about triple the level forecasted by the consultants. Just build it already.

- Better land-use planning rules. Stop building crap suburbs. Narrower streets, grids and semi-grids, no more curves, no more cul-de-sacs, NO EXCEPTIONS. Commercial and institutional buildings tight to the street line. Learn how to say NO to residential and commercial sprawl-merchants.

- Stop building green space and open space for green space's and open space's sake. Does the space serve a specific set of functions? Does it interact with the urban form around it? No? Then build a building there.

- Tie land use and transit development more closely together. Let the private sector in on the equation, to try and expedite the devlopment or rail-based transit on corridors like Rideau-Montreal before the current timetable of some time in the 24th century. Let a PPP capture LRT-induced increases in tax assessments for a limited period of time as a way of financing it.

- Develop an URBAN neighbourhood at the CFB Rockcliffe site, not more suburban crap, and tie the development to an east-end LRT.

- At some point, it would be nice to have a hospital somewhere downtownish, like most other major cities do.

- Vancouver rules for more downtown buildings. No more blank walls or functionally blank walls like Shoppers Drug Mart's non-window windows.

Last edited by Uhuniau; Feb 8, 2014 at 7:09 PM. Reason: Blurnkleglop
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