General Suburban Updates and Rumours

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The City of Kitchener has a proposal submitted for a 13 floor residential building with a total of 202 units and 6 "live-work" units on the ground floor (as well as underground parking). I'm a bit confused, though. It lists it at 1295 Bleams Road but that address is in Wilmot. When you look that up on Google Maps it points to a farm field. There is also a 1295 Bleams Road East and 1295 Bleams Road West and that's in the middle of a single family home neighbourhood in New Hamburg. I looked up current active applications on the Township of Wilmot website but they don't have anything there. So this is a bit of a mystery. Perhaps it was just a typo.

Also I never realized how confusing Bleams Road is. It starts off of Manitou Drive continuing over to Trussler Road where it ends. Except it doesn't actually end, it continues but only once you go north on Trussler until you hit Ottawa Street at which point it becomes Bleams again if you go westbound. It continues all the way into the outskirts of New Hamburg where it suddenly goes north and ends at Highway 8. But! That's not actually the end of Bleams. On the other side of the Nith River you find Bleams Road East - all 100 meters of it. And then there is Bleams Road West which is about 280 meters until it hits a dead end at the banks of the river. That's not all, though. Across the river exists Bleams Crescent.

Extremely on brand confusion that only exists in Waterloo Region. :'P It would have been much simpler to just rename streets as they became disconnected over the years.