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By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted August 16, 2013 at 11:15:06 in reply to Comment 90959
This is clearly though not a widespread trend, if it was, Barton wouldn't still be one of the core area's Code Red touched/practically centred itself on.
Regardless, demolition is not a dead end, sometimes old development must give way to new development. Espcially when you are in a urban design paradigm that doesn't work, in an area dominated by low density. This area is just as much a low density suburb as the sprawl on the mountain. It's an area that does not have the population densisty needed for smaller buisnesses to sustain themselves (unlike the core which is now begining to approach that density due to new developments high density developments like the Chateau Royale and reworked large, formerly commercial developments like Filmwork Lofts turned into higher density developments) and it's an area that simply lacks the space to build larger buisnesses. It's an area that is economically depressed and has been for decades, and continues to be one of the lowest income, highest poverty rated areas in the city.
So given that there is no place to build new development in the area. How exactly do you propose to fix the area? How exactly do you plan on building greenspaces without knocking something down? How exactly can you entertain a transit hub when you have nowhere to build it and no room to convert the roads to accomadate it? How exactly do you plan on creating population density, when you can't build an apartment building anywhere, without breaking the bank repurposing a strucutre never designed for such a development?
Let me be clear, I'm not saying level all of Barton St. I'm saying to clean out low density dead rot of little archtectural worth and replace it with greenspaces, or higher desnity development that the city is perfectly capable of doing/incentivizing. Things that we know are good for an area and have shown to work (see Durand). I understand the city has a history of letting owners demolish strucutre and then not replace them, but if the city itself is doing the work, there is no reason it can't be done.
You can't say you support high density on one hand, and then say but we must never remove or redevelop our low density developments on the other.
Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2013-08-16 11:21:47
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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