Comment 51595

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted November 15, 2010 at 22:07:30

Well, the stadium is another can of worms all together. Publicly owned stadiums need to be in a spot where the city can recover the large maintenance costs of the stadium. This requires two things. A) A profitable team to whom you can charge rent and B) Surrounding development of whom you can tax. The problem is A) isn't the case right now and the future is unknown at any new site, where as there is some things that can be done to support B). It's why Confederation Park is such a bad site, due to the lack of development, or potential development.

Moving on though, I think both agree sprawl is a bad thing. Where we disagree is I think that banning sprawl development will stop sprawl which will do little to no harm at worst (allowing us time to get our finances in order) and benefit the city at best (forcing developers to re-develop areas), whereas I think your position is banning sprawl may offer some benefit at best (might draw developers), but at the cost of alienating or cause a lack of developer attraction (developers want easy areas to build), to which I can only say, we should not be seeking out developers at this point who want to build sprawl.

Still waiting for the Randle Reef mess to get cleaned up, but hopefully not much longer!

http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2012/12/18/hamilton-randle-reef-announcement.html

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