Comment 43200

By highwater (registered) | Posted July 13, 2010 at 11:26:14

Hi Bob. I certainly didn't mean to imply that you knowingly lied about preferring downtown sites, but rather that your knowledge of the impossibility of turning these sites over to a stadium (with the vast amount of parking you're insisting on!), makes it difficult to believe that you consider these sites serious alternatives.

As to the NEC restrictions, the fact is that Chedoke Golf course is currently public sports facility. The stadium would also be a public sports facility. Not to minimize the complexity of dealing with the Niagara Escarpement Commission, this should not be an impossible change in use application.

You are a smart man. It is difficult to believe that your assertion that a 25,000 seat stadium surrounded by parking for 1,000's of vehicles would have the same impact on the escarpment as a golf course, is anything other than disingenuous. The 'complexity' of dealing with the NEC is not what should put this site out of bounds, but rather the environmental reprehensibility.

As for the IP site, if it were on the table, this land is Hamilton's best chance at attracting high-quality jobs to this city. Why would you want to take that away from us? The West Harbour site may not be ideal from a city-building perspective, but building on Chedoke or the IP would do far greater environmental and economic harm to this city. I guess that's why I prefer to believe that you are not being serious when you suggest these sites as alternatives.

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