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It doesn't permit anything for a good distance back from King to be anything more than 3-4 storeys. There'll be no Princess or Red condos popping up here, let alone City Center or 1Vic style developments, at least not without the bulk being pushed back from King with further property acquisition. Unless they themselves can assemble the properties at the back, I don't know why a developer would pay them an arm and a leg for the portion of land that is limited to 4 storeys, when they can buy the denser development potential properties at the back and not worry about Huether.
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08-19-2016, 02:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 08-19-2016, 02:42 PM by Watdot.)
Zone changes can happen but when I said large, I wasn't meaning necessarily in height. A four storey building with underground parking is of greater density than anything currently at that intersection. Also as Viewfromthe42 mentioned, other properties along Bridgeport behind there could possibly be acquired. Regardless, curious to see what happens but hopefully it doesn't remain a surface parking lot for very long.
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I am surprised that the core portion of the brewery is not historically designated. Agree with the others here, seeing the original brewery replaced with a parking lot is very disappointing.
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Pretty much done now:
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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Is is just me or is this busker carnival truck parked a little too close to the tracks:
Also encounter this truck this morning, can't imagine the years of life it took off the new trail:
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.
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That reminds me of the Laurel Trail along the Tech Park it seems like there are always vehicles using that stretch, I often found this even before LRT construction but it is significantly more now.
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I don't know about before construction, but there certainly are a lot of GrandLinq and related vehicles that use the trail through there. That having been said, they don't leave them there, and are pretty polite when they encounter trail users (at least in my experience). And I don't usually see a lot of alternatives to their using it for brief stretches.
In contract, this truck that Pheidippides took a picture of is choosing to block the entire width of the trail, and could just as easily have avoided it. There's no chance that it would even cross the mind of the driver that maybe the trail isn't designed to carry that weight. Motorists who put their two-tonne vehicles on sidewalks and the like simply couldn't care less that they're greatly hastening the wear of the sidewalk.
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There was some sample drilling in the old post office lot/property at King/Bridgeport/Regina the other day.
Everyone move to the back of the bus and we all get home faster.