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Originally Posted by youngregina
I would like to hear peoples reasoning for voting for "no" for a new 12 - 15 floor hotel. I dont mind what you say, I just want to know your opinion on the matter.
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I vote "no", because the numbers don't show it's necessary to have another one. Regina's room occupancy in 2006 was 66.9% (average revenue per room $63.20/d), vs the national average of 65% (at $80/d). In 2007 it was up slightly to 71.2% (at $71.23), but with the new Wingate and that Albert St south one, given the total number of rooms in the city, the market will re-saturate and the stats will come back down to the national average. (Sources:
Sask Hotel & Hospitality Assn and
Hotel Assn of Cdn)
There are more useful things that would contribute to the city's quality of life the local construction industry should build instead - higher density housing (incl low-income), etc. Building another hotel will just divert more construction workers and raise the costs of developing anything else (like the new office tower ppl have been mentioning).
What is your reasoning for wanting a new hotel?
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Originally Posted by someguy
As far as I know, those are the only architectural codes that regina has. Anything else in the zoning bylaw is parking, setbacks and landscape.
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Is there at least some kind of City committee that reviews building plans/proposals for design merit? The
Urban Planning Division seems to focus more on land use and zoning (the "intent") but doesn't even look at the actual products (the "outcomes"). Why not?
Other cities like
Vancouver,
Toronto and
Montreal go out of their way to scrutinise plans - Montreal is even a
UNESCO City for Design, which is pretty neat, motivates the City to raise its own standards.
Even if review committees don't have powers themselves to approve or reject anything, at least their City Councils make informed decisions in giving projects go-aheads. They can also specify
guidelines and give
awards for design which help to boost awareness (and criticism and demand) for good architecture - and also helps winning developers make sales, and architects get prestige, of course.
Why not Regina?
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there also isnt much room to expand it a lane, especcially near ross ave. the city is planning some sort of new on and off ramp there and there just wouldnt be the room. But i see where you are coming from on this point.
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