The Metz (Schneiders site redevelopment)

[panamaniac]

Why do developers always seem to have to make a new main street in their development when they're already right beside a perfectly acceptable one?

Zoning is the general answer I believe. Courtland is residential on the other side, so it probably requires huge front lawn-style setbacks, probably doesn't allow commercial, etc. On regional roads we heavily restrict driveways because they might slow down traffic. It's all just more 1970s planning that's deeply embedded in our policies, and the attitudes of a lot of people that work at the municipalities.

There are, or have been at one time or another in the past, many commercial uses along the other side of Courtland between Borden and Stirling.