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Originally Posted by ATL Stadium
Well I'm just back in from the first of three public meetings on the Stadium steering committee.
I thought it was great to be able to place post-it type answers to questions for all to see. I would say very positive comment by all but there were a few that exclaimed a need to not build a "white elephant". Also one person Evans I think that was on the negative side.
One thing that the meeting lacked was any sort of update from the committee itself and any sort of opportunity to publicly ask questions of the committee for others to voice support or non support on. All of the questions were pre-determined by the committee so no public ability to ask.....
I would not hesitate to say that most of the post-it notes echoes the general theme of this site to build it big enough for future considerations of tenants like soccer and football. 25000 to 30000 with the ability to expand for larger public needs down the road or for specific events.
I'm not sure of any others from this site that may have been present but thought it was poorly attended. I would have expected hundreds to be there, but not the case.
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Yeah I didn't get there until 8pm, but apparently the crowds were great at 6:30. I have a friend who is on the committee (didn't realize until I saw him there) and had a good chat with him.
I had a good look at all the messages that were posted, since I was there until it was done at 8:30. 90% were positive in various forms, but as I was saying to my friend it will be difficult to integrate it all because much of it is mutually exclusive.
Regardless, I put in my 2 cents to the committee members as a representative of the Beyeas Special Interest Group (TM), and said that this needs to happen, it needs to be built in a way that is expandable for future planning purposes up to a full Grey Cup size, should not have a track so as to preserve views for the primary uses of football and soccer, should be integrated with a transit hub, should not just be a slightly scaled up version of what Moncton built, and that this is a huge quality of life issue that is a massive part of the equation of recruiting and retaining talented workers to this city (as quality of life requires a whole range of amenities).
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