Comment 102873

By jason (registered) | Posted June 26, 2014 at 09:45:21

was involved in a convo yesterday about the Barton-Tiffany plans that were just released. The general feeling was that the plans look great, BUT once staff and our 1950's suburban design bylaws come into play we will simply see more of the same lousy development that has plagued Hamilton for years.

I personally would prefer if we didn't move an inch on any of these substantial and potentially game-changing initiatives until our zoning and urban design criteria are updated.

I'm not sure if there's any precedent for this, but couldn't Hamilton simply ask to copy the zoning/design bylaws from a city like Vancouver, Toronto, Portland etc.... and throw out our antiquated bylaws?

Developments like Barton-Tiffany, Pier 8, City Motor Hotel, PanAm stadium district are far too valuable to be wasting on surface parking and horrid design. These developments collectively can literally inject new life and higher standards into Hamilton's urban fabric, but not with the current bylaws that mandate set-backs, road widenings, gobs of parking and virtually no standards on design materials/architecture which is how we end up with this:

http://www.raisethehammer.org/static/ima...

Great quote from Jen Keesmaat last night on twitter:

https://twitter.com/jen_keesmaat/status/...

Hamilton gets what we get also due to our policies. Stop everything until we can do a major overhaul of them.

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