It's stunning that the City of Burnaby thinks that building tower after tower is the right course to take towards creating a diverse and pedestrian friendly neighbourhood. The more towers they build, the more homogenized Metrotown becomes, and incredibly their plan is to continue to tear down walk-ups and replace them with towers. If you look at any vibrant, walk-able neighbourhood in Vancouver, you will find that they all have a large supply of affordable walk-ups. Metrotown is becoming some out-of-control Frankenstein.
This is both hilarious and sad...
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In the blocks behind Kingsway, it would allow for a swath of low-rise apartment blocks to be replaced by four-to-12-storey towers (that process has already begun) and make the area more pedestrian friendly with new plazas and the like. The goal, the plan states, is “to establish an exciting, inclusive, and sustainable downtown for Burnaby; one comprised of well-connected neighbourhoods that provide a sense of place and community identity."
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