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Originally Posted by Burbs_boy

Long time reader, never posted before, this line of thinking drives me absolutely crazy.

The reason it is "special" is because there is no other major city stupid enough to continue building outward yet for some reason preserve 427 acres of farmland in the centre of their city. This "green space" that is actually brown and barren for a majority of the year and almost totally unusable by the public has no business existing when we are in the midst of an ever worsening housing shortage. I'm all for preserving the buildings and even some of the fields near the museum.

Some here have called Tewin a blank slate for a new type of community building. There is no reason a redeveloped experimental farm could not be this. It can have huge tracts of actual greenspace inside the new communities, mixed real estate, affordable housing, bike lanes galore and all the other city building ideas we all get off to.

Not a single new home should be built in the current burbs or Tewin until we have developed most of the experimental farm, LeBreton flats, and every single farm in the greenbelt.

This sounds... Really short sighted when you say it like that. Farmland close to the city is going to be more and more important for future sustainability