210 Heritage Dr, Kitchener | Stacked townhomes, 26 units

[Bjays93]

Yup it is very much suburban. 

On the note of the green space, personally I would've preferred to see an extension of Georgian park as opposed to knocking down a bunch of trees and putting in a huge surface parking lot.

Doesn't meet the "suburban areas" definition we came up with last year when this forum was renamed.

Isn't Georgian Park on the other side of the street? In any case, the city would need to be proactive in shopping for park extension properties, by the time a developer has purchased it and is proposing a project is really too late.

I thought urban was inside the expressway and suburban outside (with the exception of the Fairview park mall area) this is very much outside the expressway. 

As for this site. Yea its definitely too late for the park extension, which would have been nice. I'm not a huge fan of cutting mature trees down, though at least they aren't clear cutting and building a retaining wall in peoples backyards like they were going to with the first proposal. 

Having 33 surface parking spaces here and no apparent green space is what gets me though. I know it's not an overly large lot but transit around here is quite good and 33 spaces for 26 units feels like a lot to me. And ideally I think youd want to see the parking tucked under the houses and a nice garden area out front, though of course that would be more expensive and I'm sure maximizing profit here is the only consideration. 

On a side note, apparently the development changes were not based on community feedback as the article suggested but rather a study was done and it was determined that the hill wasnt stable enough for houses to be built on, hence the scaled back proposal. Not that that really matter too much.