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Originally Posted by Colin May
How does that location have a 'suburban feel', whatever that is, and what is 'urban feel' ?
The lots abutting the development at North and Oxford are 33 feet wide. The lots at Beech and Elm are predominantly 33 feet; as are most residential lots on the peninsula.
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I would not call this area suburban. It is the rotten donut that encircles most cities...like Toronto or any American city. In Halifax, it is just much smaller. A perky downtown with certainly an urban feel, then a wasteland of car dealers and smelly half empty parking lots, fast food and strip malls. Then back to actual suburbs and relative prosperity. Urban feel is density and density makes for healthy urban cores with less traffic and more people with and without means if we can get some decent public housing off the ground. These buildings are perfect for that area and will in time move the urban core outward and also make some suburbanites take a second look at moving inward.
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