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Originally Posted by Arcologist
I'll fix my statement by saying the development is surrounded by roads. It's a very hostile
I agree that we need more housing, but that can't mean just sticking ugly designs into hostile empty lots. I'm not sure what the solution is here, but this proposal is lacking in terms of reducing the hostility of the site.
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I would say Arts Court and the OAG is as hostile if not worse. I don't think the St-Laurent site road condition should be a reason not to build new housing at that location. Maybe one day the parking structure at St-Laurent will be demolished and more housing will be built in its place.
I don't think roads themselves are what make an area hostile. (Unless you are talking about a 20 lanes crosswalk) It has more to do with the lack of immediate destinations. If you have to walk 15min between each commerce, I would classify this as hostile. But if there is proper/safe street crossing, and enough things to walk to in the immediate surrounding, I would call that non-hostile.
So if we define the St-Laurent site as hostile, the solution would be to build more things in the immediate surrounding (such as redeveloping the mall parking structure into mixed-used space).
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