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Originally Posted by Aylmer

Wow! Look at those thousands of people! I wonder if they're the same folk who magically populate the NCC or the Lansdowne Conservancy's renderings of grass.

If this project goes through, it will be empty 20 hours of the day on all days except for the days with those family-fun festivals which feature so prominently in their video. At best, it will be forgotten by locals, sporadically used by summer tourists and a wasted opportunity. At worst, it becomes a place to do things far from the prying eyes of strangers.

The place as it is is pitiful, not for a lack of greenspace, but for a lack of consistent, casual, round-the-clock population and interest. This will not provide any of the former and relatively little of the latter.

Until they can come up with a satisfying reason as to why those throngs of happy people should be there and not just on a nice summer day, I cannot find any reason to be remotely supportive of the project.

Yes too bad we continue to be obsessed with generic green space. While it would be one of the nicer urban parks in the region, unfortunately there is not a large population within realistic walking distance and it is not large or spectacular enough to attract people from farther away. The best feature is probably the view so I would think restaurants could do well.