02-07-2024, 12:01 AM
(02-06-2024, 10:35 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Since when does an encampment at Weber St. affect development on the transit hub lands between King and Duke, especially the first phase of such construction? Suddenly we’re building a transit hub 3 blocks long? Now I’m a big proponent of enormously horizontally large buildings, but this is the first we’ve heard of the Duke to Weber block having anything to do with the transit hub.
Note by way of support for my consternation that the tracks wiggle over — by the time you get to Duke St. you are past the end of where a straight platform can be.
The Region was planning on using the Weber/Victoria lot as an off site parking lot for the station, there were plans floating around somewhere for it. The court ruling for the encampment effectively blocked the Regions plan for the parking lot however. Thus it seems reasonable to assume that instead of having that parking lot right at Weber/Victoria the parking lot will now be at Duke/Victoria. The property could then years down the road be converted to a TOC of some sorts along with the rest of the land owned by the Region.