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Originally Posted by OTownandDown
Is hemlock the big street running east-west in the image above? With the wild setbacks to the low-rises?
I just crave a European paved town square, I guess. Doesn't have to be anything grandiose, but like a dense core to create some traffic. I went walking there a bit ago, its very sleepy. The walkable inter-condo pass-thru things are super nice, but I just worry it's not well populated.
and forget about the goddam towns and singles on the upper right and lower right in the image. What a hellhole (personally). To have a walkup that nobody ever uses, and then ANOTHER laneway/driveway/detached garage. Its just pavement. and very unfriendly. It doesn't even look fun for kids to bike. Their front street has traffic, and back street is a flat collage of garage doors. Other cities have these garage door neighbourhoods, and they're great for women-of-the-night to generate business (see: Singapore).
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No Hemlock is the east-west street towards the left side of the picture.
There is a paved town square as mentioned above. Most of the area around it has not been developed yet but it will be surrounded my medium density apartments/condos with retail at the bottom. I don't know why you would expect it to be "lively" at this stage?
Are you sure you have walked around this neighborhood? Almost every street has bike lanes or a mixed-use path along it. Kids in the neighborhood already have access to three parks with huge playgrounds with more planned. The large playground at Eugene Martineau Park is packed with kids on any day with decent weather and clearly has been attracting plenty of families from outside the neighborhood.
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