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Originally Posted by someone123
One problem I see with Spring Garden Road is how there isn't really a path to extend the main commercial area east or west. The municipal zoning enforces the current uses and does not encourage expansion around there. When I look on the map, for example, the sites just west of Cathedral Lane (rental buildings) are zoned for residential which only permits minor commercial uses. The border of "downtown Halifax" for zoning purposes is something somebody would have recognized in about 1980, while a lot of buildings of that vintage are now deemed too tall for this area.
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The blockbuster development with the Ghostbuster buildings to the east will make this non commercial stretch of SGR all the more obvious.
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Originally Posted by someone123
I wonder if it will ever be possible to do something about the tower-in-park site at the Summer Street intersection. Historically people said this all looked nice and because the gardens were there it's good to have more garden-ish stuff nearby. But these things make the area low density and incoherent and IMO actually detract from the Public Gardens themselves as they make the boundaries fuzzier and are often built to a lower design quality. Even the gardens are fairly "impermeable" for pedestrians. I think it would be more appropriate to develop this as the heart of the city, Halifax's version of the lower parts of Central Park. I guess it's one of those ways that I wish people would just accept that they're living in a city, even in the South End.
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That building was originally proposed to front on SGR with the green area behind it but was moved back as a concession to those opposing it because of its proximity to the Public Gardens.
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