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Originally Posted by FuzzyWuz
So dig up and develop another huge portion of what's left of the commons? Count me among the NIMBYs. You may as well suggest putting it in the middle of Point Pleasant Park.
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I've always been a bit puzzled about people who want to leave the Commons as-is. Right now it is mostly a mix of ageing, ad hoc sports infrastructure. A big chunk of it is just empty grass or baseball diamonds. This is nice for some uses but it seems like a tough sell to me to say that it's better to have 9 baseball diamonds vs. 5 baseball diamonds or 300 acres vs. 200 acres of grass or whatever instead of a stadium that would be used by tens of thousands of people multiple times per year.
Point Pleasant is a different animal; it's largely a wilderness park with some historic buildings, and people go there to walk around in a natural environment. The fact that Halifax has a park like that actually suggests to me that it is better to use the Commons for all the other stuff that wouldn't work as well in Point Pleasant, like a stadium.
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