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Originally Posted by LRTfan
love it, but man that parking garage...really?? Why not a 2nd building with a parking garage at the bottom? And do we even need a parking garage here? The entire underground of Jackson SQ and AGH/Convention Centre is parking.
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Waiting lists for parking downtown exceed over 6 months for municipal lots(Convention Centre, City Hall and York Parkade included) and over 90 days for private lots. There is a lack of parking even before this student residence comes online. So the parking included as part of this development is required.
Not to mention that this development is eliminating the existing on site City Parking which the City leased from BAYKING motors going way back. Also eliminated is the surface lot recently sold on Hunter and Catharine. More surface lots downtown are to be sold in the future, so parking garages will have to be built. In my opinion it is a smarter use of land to build parking garages which can house the same amount of cars as say 5 surface lots. Time to get rid of the massive surface parking lot blocks we have, this site included.
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