06-23-2022, 09:39 AM
(06-23-2022, 08:31 AM)westwardloo Wrote: I hope they seriously consider the AUD lands for the Hospital. Still a central location, easy access to the highway and although not right beside the LRT it is relatively close. I am happy they are finally realizing St. Marys and Grand River can not serve the regions hospital needs for the future 50 years. The region has had to rely on london or Hamilton for any major surgery, which might have been ok when we were a region of 250,000 people but we will be a metro of 1 million soon after this hospital is built. A red flag on the little information we have is the Hospital is looking fo 60 acres of land. So I would assume they will land in either the industrial lands of north cambridge, south kitchener or near rim park. with a sea of parking surrounding the hospital instead of a parking garage and no reasonable transit connection.
60 acres? What would they ever do with that much land? That is a square 492m on a side!
OK, OK, sea of parking. But I mean, in the context of reasonable urban design?
Keeping in mind that a large city should have multiple hospitals, so “expansion” isn’t an answer: you expand by opening additional locations. They are aware of the existence of technology for building multiple levels of a building, one above the other?