[Halifax] QE II Health Sciences Centre | ? | 14 fl | U/C

[Jonovision]

I think he has valid points when it comes to the urban design of the complex. Sure we cannot expect everyone to ride the bus or the bike to get to the hospital. But this project is so large and on such a prominent site, it has the ability to create a more excited and animated connection between the Spring Garden Road area and Quinnpool and provide a nicer edge to the Commons. I think it would be a shame to waste that opportunity.

They could easily locate the parking more to the interior of the site and create active frontages along both Bell Road and Robie Street.

My biggest problem is that the city has spent so much time and effort to create the centre plan and with it a set of urban design guidelines and this will fly in the face of all of that because the Province will do whatever it wants and ignore what the city is trying to create.