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Originally Posted by Highwayman
Having that fire hall there actually adds to the allowable density. Also it raises land values as people feel safer when they have a close fire hall.
Where do you think they are going to shove a new hall? Pull something stupid like the portage Avenue one where the old hall 3 blocks away was fine. But let's spend millions on a stupidly placed hall in what is technically part of an intersection. The older Osborne one down south from the fire hall is just a ambulance hall now. So the nearest is actually quite far. That hall in Osborne serves also Kingston Row area of St Vital when the St vital one on St Mary's is busy elsewhere.
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Could retrofit the ambo station temporarily to house fire apparatus and build a new hall in its current spot with housing up top and commercial along the Stradbrook side.