08-28-2023, 09:56 AM
That map is also slightly misleading because they've marked the cemetaries as 'other greenspace,' but these are not greenspaces that we can do anything with. We can renovate parks and make them more approachable or useful to more people, but cemetaries are just... there. If we removed those sections of green from the map, the park deficit becomes even more apparent.
I have been telling my ward councilor and making suggestions to the city that Civic Centre Park (between Centre in the Square and the KPL) needs to be expanded by taking over the surface lot at Ahrens, and even partially into the surface lot off Otto. You could nearly double the size of the park pretty easily by expanding all the way to Ahrens St, and it already gets a lot of visitors and lots of beautiful full-grown trees. It could be a 'major' park on the north side of the LRT to balance out Victoria Park on the south side.
I have been telling my ward councilor and making suggestions to the city that Civic Centre Park (between Centre in the Square and the KPL) needs to be expanded by taking over the surface lot at Ahrens, and even partially into the surface lot off Otto. You could nearly double the size of the park pretty easily by expanding all the way to Ahrens St, and it already gets a lot of visitors and lots of beautiful full-grown trees. It could be a 'major' park on the north side of the LRT to balance out Victoria Park on the south side.