03-08-2018, 10:00 AM
To be clear, Kae Elgie is arguing that having a development that does not appear to be in keeping with heritage buildings will ruin the heritage buildings. She likely means that allowing this means that eventually we'll allow the Town Square site to have towers, eventually the Alexandra condos will go forth, and all these things will ruin the ability of King Street in UpTown to resemble King Street in St. Jacob's. It's the logical extension of heritage buildings in UpTown leading to no shadow-casting or style-differentiated neighbours for those heritage buildings, leading to heritage neighbourhoods and streetscapes, and an overall blanket over UpTown. It's not insignificant that when people who could attend a weekday afternoon charette on UpTown developments for pedestrianization, the results they came up with did not touch improving the pedestrian experience anywhere in any neighbourhoods. Even for pedestrians, they only suggested change along the Laurel creek, lest someone get the wise idea that change of any kind should enter any of the neighbourhood associations. They even had a nickname for their proposed focus area from Silver Lake to Laurel Creek, based on its shape: the BANANA. Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything (as the urban acronym denotes). A perfect mascot.