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Originally Posted by Riberview
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I can't see why Irving actually needs the area of the purchased property labelled as R7 & R8 on this map:
Thiis portion of the former
Bedford Buck & Sons property is obviously superfluous to Irvings need. The city might be able to convince Irving to sell this portion of the property, and maybe a thin sliver at the back of the property near Humphreys Brook (to act as a connector) so that a modified version of the Humpheys Brook Neighbourhood project could proceed. Bill Budd in the CBC interview intimated as much in the CBC interview. Here is his quoted statement below:
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Bill Budd, the city's director of planning, was coy about whether the city expects any development in the area purchased.
"Not all landowners want to develop, and that's fine, but at some point if they do, there's a framework there that helps tie in to the rest of the neighbourhood," Budd said in an interview earlier this year.
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One thing I found to be interesting is that the initial plan for the Moncton East Business Park included access to the park both from Price Street
and from Filles de Jesus Ave, as well as a connector to the proposed Humphreys Brook neighbourhood. The Filles de Jesus connection would have provided easy access from the new neighbourhood to Elmwood Drive and amenities such as the Sobeys store. Since the Filles de Jesus connector did not happen, is this an indication that the city is holding off until the Irving situation sorts itself out???