General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[ac3r]

I know I'm living in a dream world here but if the city and region want more parkland, tear down the old transit terminal and sod it over. Use some of the space for a community centre or similar. Gain some more park space as you keep adding thousands of condo residents to the core.

I have some designs I've worked on in AutoCAD that do this. I've made a mockup mixed use project there that includes a ton of new park space (as well as renovated and redesigned space where the big field is, though I think the City of Kitchener would prefer to keep that for event space i.e. the multicultural festival), more park space on the parking lot on Gaukel and a public square kind of where the water fountain is near Gaukel. I also got rid of Joseph Street all together (keeping the bike lane and stuff, of course) and have it all connected to King Street/City Hall. The only real obstacle is the LRT line but there's no changing that now.

I've been meaning to export it all with AutoCAD Rendering though since it's just a fun project and not an actual proposal, I haven't put the time in yet. Unfortunately from what I know, the City of Kitchener is planning on redeveloping that in other ways.