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Originally Posted by YOWetal
I said it in another thread but Tom Brown needs to be high density housing. Incoroporate an Arena if that is the most needed use of the space but it's obsense to have a swath of scrub grass and an Arena at the nexus of our only rapid transit lines. Sanday Hill could also house a ton of people in place of its huge surgace parkign lot. McNabb is trickier and the real disadvantaged community centre but also on a prime piece of real estate. Sell just the empty field next to Tom Brown and you can refurbish them all including undground parking and social housing on top at Sandy Hill.
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It’s fine to say that we need higher density housing, but we also need to provide services for people in those areas. You can’t replace all city properties with housing, as urban neighbourhoods are already underserved in terms of recreation facilities.
Tom Brown is close to transit, but if you close it you still need to replace it. I’m not sure an arena in a housing complex is very likely, so where you going to build a new arena in that neighborhood? That’s kind of the point of the article. You can’t keep adding people to urban area while taking away facilities.
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