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Originally Posted by Harley613
...also flooding and little cliffs have no effect on waterfront construction. Tens of millions of buildings are built on the World's coasts where tides come in and out, tens of millions of buildings are built on the World's waterways where the depth changes depending on the weather and season. Tens of millions of buildings are built into, on, and over cliffs of all heights. Ottawa turned it's back to it's waterways in the 1950's when the Greber Plan began being implemented. The idea was to 'restore the shorelines', but in reality our waterways got a thin ribbon of restored shoreline blocked off from the City by mini highways. The Greber Plan was very auto-centric and was focused on de-centralization...the exact opposite of what we are going for now.
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As someone who tries to bike to work as much as I can I can assure you that our Ottawa River waterfront land is being used daily by thousands of people who are cycling, running, walking, rolling, etc. Not to mention the fact that we have developed high-quality ski trails in recent years along the same corridor. Just because there aren't highrises doesn't mean the area is not used.
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