05-17-2017, 08:18 PM
(05-17-2017, 12:24 PM)Coke6pk Wrote:(05-16-2017, 09:48 PM)darts Wrote: like restore a building downtown and put a library in it, build a city hall downtown, build a bridge, have a theatre built and dorms, convert traffic to 2 way traffic downtown, put those poles in the road to facilitate more open street events by the farmers market, try and entice developers to buy and find tenants for the former courthouse downtown that was abandoned, put in street scaping in guelph, spend double the budget to put in streetscaping in hespeler, suspend development fees for low income housing for 20 years (taxes too?), not collect any development fees for projects in the downtown area.
I would question how many GTA residents would commute from home to Cambridge for a downtown library, city hall, a pedestrian bridge or 2 way traffic. A dense city has more customers willing to use the service. Limiting density to 3 stories would seem counter productive.
I'd also question his anti-LRT stance as another road block for the city. [How do the non-car owners get to/from the station?]
Coke
How many are going to KW for their library and courthouses and condos? Yes there are tech companies in both cities, there are companies in cambridge that are also in Toronto as well, and for the most part for meetings there are telephones
His LRT stance as I understood it was more along the lines of the LRT wasn't coming to Cambridge and the residents in cambridge would end up subsidizing the operation costs, which is true since it looks like phase 2 is 10 years out assuming there is provincial and federal money. How much of his LRT stance and how you perceive him affecting your thoughts on this matter, if he were to die today the next mayor would likely be in favour of a go train coming to Cambridge.
And as DH lawrence has pointed out there is a lot of land between Beverly and Shade st, at Beverly just past Dundas, there is a bunch of buildings near dundas st that will be next to the LRT.