Comment 90740

By -Hammer- (registered) | Posted August 09, 2013 at 21:08:27

Or, you could actually instead of selecting all the area past Gage, consider the opposite side of Barton up to Loyd St in your estimates.

Yes, down with inner city parkland and greenfields that we all acknowledge are in exceptional short supply. Down with removing, and stand behind the protection of the DQ shack with a large parking lot, the strip mall variety store with a large parking lot, the used car dealership which itself is a giant parking lot, the empty lot which if not for cinderblocks would be a parking lot, the derelict Blockbuster video, a gas station, a Tim Hortons and a McDonalds both with decent sized parking lots, the 8 derelict, density lacking two floor buildings around 774 Barton St, the literal parking lots on Melrose & Barton and Chapple St. the strip mall that does boast a grocery store and a massive parking lot and some cookie cutter, density lacking, 60s housing in various levels of repair, the decaying industrial buildings that hug the rails, and two nice churches and a two floor gym that could easily be incorporated into the area with the gym acting as a meeting area.

Maybe ten pitches is a bit much, and certainly there is stuff there that makes sense to keep, so there is some exaggeration here, however I wouldn't say his idea is completely without merit, it just needs reworking. Removing some of what is on Barton St. especially the swath of parking lots along it or even closing a portion of Barton St. and cutting a cyclist path through it and diverting traffic towards the larger car traffic vein in King St. I don't really see this as a bad thing, especially when you are replacing so much parking with public greenfields.

Comment edited by -Hammer- on 2013-08-09 21:22:39

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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