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Originally Posted by beyeas
I agree. All Dartmouth Crossing achieved was a further hollowing out of urban areas, and even more so, used up what should have been industrial land to put shopping (at which point they used they presence of the shopping to then justify residential zoning in an industrial area, which just even further increases the suburban spread). The whole damn thing is just so completely counter to the sort of urban planning that results in livable cities, and feeds into the urban sprawl car culture.
(I know I sound like an irrational tree hugger here too, which I'm not. I just think that this is the wrong side of the balance sheet).
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I completely agree with you. What I don't understand is lots of the offices in burnside don't necessarily need the industrial park setting. The density is way too thin. Some of it should be amalgamated into larger and taller buildings. And spreading even further out is not good planning.
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