Downtown outdoor spaces

[danbrotherston]

Within Google Maps, there is a dotted line that follows west from where Jubilee Dr and Park St meet.  It parallels Devon St for a bit and then tucks between Victoria Park Place and the train tracks. There is an informal track crossing just to the north of Victoria Lake.

About the only expansion point left for Victoria Park, that would avoid knocking down any large grouping of housing, would be the old bus station and the former post office property.  Just riffing on this, but wouldn't the old post office property be a good spot for "bike in/walk in/transit in" movies projected on the big blank wall of the parking garage? I'm also curious what other larger, non-school owned, play structures there are near Victoria Park that could accommodate more than a dozen children? At most I can think of the Civic Centre Park (1km+ away), possibly Gzowski Park (next to the Victoria Hills Community Centre), and possibly Lakeside Park.

Does lakeside park have a playground, I don't recall seeing one?

And given that I live on the other side of Vic Park, equidistant to lakeside parks are things like George Lipper Park, even Duke St. Park both of which could probably comfortabley entertain 12 children outside of pandemic times.

There's actually a fair number of playgrounds around.

In terms of expanding Vic Park, the location you speak of is called Sandrock Greenway. There are two homes there, but even if you were unwilling to sacrifice two homes to expand the park, the space behind the homes is being used as some type of junk yard right now, the homes could be retained but the park expanded into the junkyard.

Additionally, Henry Sturm Greenway abuts the park. It's a more or less wild area, which isn't a bad thing, but if the goal was to expand the park, the park could be expanded there as well.