General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

The City of Waterloo likely won't put much effort into improving the streetscape for people there, so it'll likely just remain this horrible student ghetto devoid of anything but ugly buildings and bubble tea shops.

It's possible to create student housing and have it still be nice, while also improving the neighbourhoods they are in (parks, new streets, infrastructure, lights, greenery etc) but for some reason Waterloo doesn't seem to care about any of that, they just rubber stamp the proposals and let the developers go crazy.

Or the Region too. The proposed update to University makes it clear they are fine with the status quo. I just hope that Kitchener can take a lesson, though the area around Conestoga College doesn't seem much better.

Contrary to the claims here, I feel the new housing is significantly better than earlier housing. And the city has spent a significant amount of effort to improve the urban design of the area.

The region is definitely status-quoing it...(although I'll give them a little credit for protected bike lanes).

For Kitchener, yes, exactly the same thing is happening, multiple housing proposals in the area have been killed, meaning students are again going to be forced into living in converted houses.