Regina Construction III

[Stormer]

Victoria Avenue is an important road in our community and work is beginning on a $6 million, multi-year infrastructure improvement and beautification project between Albert Street and Broad Street. By properly maintaining this road now, we ensure it stays in good, safe condition for another 25 years.
This project will include:

• A contemporary palette of paving, lighting and furnishings distinctive to Regina’s downtown.
• New modern black powder coated traffic signal poles and enhanced street lighting.
• Six intersection improvements with larger curbs for pedestrian safety.
• Streetscape improvements with new boulevards, wider sidewalks on the north side and planting of new trees.
• Water connection replacements and improvements to sewer mains, as well as repairs to catch basins and manholes.

~Regina.ca

[Tyler19944]

A Victoria beautification is an exciting project for Regina! It has so many great buildings that would be better showcased with a nice street front, hopefully it will turn out to be Reginas grand avenue.

Hopefully the street beautification doesn't stop there and they tackle Sask Drive next....

[one_brick_at_a_time]

Originally Posted by Tyler19944

A Victoria beautification is an exciting project for Regina! It has so many great buildings that would be better showcased with a nice street front, hopefully it will turn out to be Reginas grand avenue.

Hopefully the street beautification doesn't stop there and they tackle Sask Drive next....

Yeah, long time coming. Funny how long it took to get this project on the list of work to be done with a portion of it RIGHT in front of City Hall. How embarrassing for so many years. Hope the 80 ornamental trees being planted are all spring blooming. That would make Victoria Avenue gorgeous in the spring.

[one_brick_at_a_time]

Does Regina have a Vacant Lot and Adaptive Reuse Incentive Program like Saskatoon?

[LittleBoy]

Originally Posted by one_brick_at_a_time

Does Regina have a Vacant Lot and Adaptive Reuse Incentive Program like Saskatoon?

AFAIK the only incentive program would be the Affordable Housing subsidy for new construction in core areas. A Vacant Lot Incentive would be a great thing to spur development in Transition and Heritage where they need new construction most

[Tyler19944]

I would love for Regina to incentivize infill developments in the future, it’s so satisfying to see. I was at the new development on Broad today across from CBC (I’m not sure the name), seeing more developments like that trickle through the Transitional would be great.

Is there plans to further develop the new neighbourhood Im talking about? Seeing another new building on the corner of Broad and College would be nice!

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by Tyler19944

I would love for Regina to incentivize infill developments in the future, it’s so satisfying to see. I was at the new development on Broad today across from CBC (I’m not sure the name), seeing more developments like that trickle through the Transitional would be great.

Is there plans to further develop the new neighbourhood Im talking about? Seeing another new building on the corner of Broad and College would be nice!

Demand will drive development. Not gov't hocus pocus. If people around here change and decide inner-city living is what they want then those projects will happen but as for now, people seem to want a house, garage and yard close to suburban shopping so that's where development will happen. We have absolutely no physical or geographical barriers stopping our outwards growth so I really don't see that stopping anytime soon.

You can't force people to purchase a place to live where they don't really want to be.

[jigglysquishy]

You can certainly end the lavish subsidies Greenfield development gets

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

You can certainly end the lavish subsidies Greenfield development gets

Do you seriously and honestly think that's what's driving suburban growth? People live where they want to live once they can afford to make that choice and in Regina it's usually not downtown or in transitional areas. We aren't like other cities where there are barriers to outward growth. We're surrounded by nothing but open and barren land as far as the eye can see.

[StealthGirl]

Originally Posted by Tyler19944

I would love for Regina to incentivize infill developments in the future, it’s so satisfying to see. I was at the new development on Broad today across from CBC (I’m not sure the name), seeing more developments like that trickle through the Transitional would be great.

The Cantebury lands were developed very well. The brick and tyndal stone on the buildings with The Lobby and The Naked Bean and the upstairs residential look great. It's nice mixed use.

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

I see you fail to mention how urban sprawl has an overall cost to the citizens of Regina that is much greater than any incentives the city would give for inner city developments. But keep telling us how the free market is supposedly more efficient, sustainable and cheaper for us...

Shhh... The adults are talking.

[BrutallyDishonest2]

Originally Posted by pappcam

Shhh... The adults are talking.

So the adult thing is to believe that all development over the past 70 years is simply the free market at work and no government policy was a component. Nice world you inhabit.

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by BrutallyDishonest2

So the adult thing is to believe that all development over the past 70 years is simply the free market at work and no government policy was a component. Nice world you inhabit.

That's not what I said. I said the suburban growth is not stopping anytime soon. We've had tax breaks for building in older neighbourhoods forever but people still want to live in a new house in new developments. People aren't being forced to move out to these new developments.

[aberrant]

The city is not adequately recovering the cost of sprawl, which means it is being incentivized, and means more costs for the city in the long run. Of course developers like it because it is profitable as heck. Despite our small size we have made a mess of our urban planning that will take 20-30 years to correct, assuming someone ever bothers to start dealing with it.

[StealthGirl]

Just out of curiosity, when we are talking about sprawl, where does that start? is it anything developed in the last ten years or how is it defined? I'm not disagreeing that we have sprawl. Our mayor can't say no to development and gave the green light to Coopertown when there wasn't a demand for it. The new elementary schools in the NW are in a field across from development bc the city hasn't yet stretched out around it.

[Tyler19944]

Originally Posted by pappcam

Shhh... The adults are talking.

Please don’t be so arrogant, this adds nothing of substance to the discussion.

[jigglysquishy]

Originally Posted by StealthGirl

Just out of curiosity, when we are talking about sprawl, where does that start? is it anything developed in the last ten years or how is it defined? I'm not disagreeing that we have sprawl. Our mayor can't say no to development and gave the green light to Coopertown when there wasn't a demand for it. The new elementary schools in the NW are in a field across from development bc the city hasn't yet stretched out around it.

I would call sprawl anything that is exclusively automobile oriented and is comprised of low density residential without walkable commercial. So for the Regina context that's effectively everything east of Park Street. The North end sprawl arguably doesn't start until you're north of the Ring Road or west of Lewvan.

The South end doesn't have bad sprawl. All of Lakeview is fairly walkable, though Hillsdale and Whitmore Park are really sprawly. Harbor Landing has a ton of retail, but it is all in massive parking lots. Being west of Lewvan means it's very auto oriented.

The Greens is arguably the most walkable neighbourhood built in Regina since the war.

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

I’m sure others would have a better answer but I would consider sprawl as unnecessary growth when there is already a certain amount of viable land for the same use within established neighborhoods.

To pappcam: we don’t live in a free world. We should not be allowed to grow unsustainably at the cost of other neighborhoods because “mah free market”. At the very least, urban sprawl shouldn’t be subsidized.

Who is "we" and who decides that? You? Me? No, the consumer decides that. Are there other cities surrounded by nothing but open barren land who refuse to build outwards? People need to stop thinking we're Vancouver already. Our inner urban area is a blight and it will take decades to fix that before we see people actually wanting to live there.

[yveseluj]

Originally Posted by jigglysquishy

Harbor Landing has a ton of retail, but it is all in massive parking lots. Being west of Lewvan means it's very auto oriented.

The Greens is arguably the most walkable neighbourhood built in Regina since the war.

I think Harbour Landing has done a fairly well - moreso than the Greens IMO. For all its faults, I'd never really have to leave Harbour Landing if it wasn't for work - everything is there and very central to the area, unlike the Greens. The addition of apartment buildings with ground-level retail was a nice change in typical design aesthetic for the city, too.

[pappcam]

Originally Posted by djforsberg

Blah, blah, blah...

I admit I admire your steadfast naivety.