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Originally Posted by bingun
I will have to read through this a few times before I can comment, but it appears the appendices are missing from the document, despite being referenced several times. I wonder if that is deliberate or an oversight.
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Draft document.
I personally think the plan is a LOT more grounded/reasonable than those initial infill renders looked, but it skipped over the Winter/Wright area, which without a doubt has the most natural small-scale growth potential due to uptown proximity.
Good mix of short, medium, and long-term ideas, like connecting Shamrock Park to Rockwood along the transmission line corridor, extending Cambridge Dr to Forbes Dr (should also go north to Brentwood Cres and Woodward while they're at it), coming up with a master plan for developing Pokiok, creating a new park around Robertson Lake, etc. Good emphasis on small lot infill, which I like.
There's some concerning duds in here like making Somerset a 'pedestrian friendly transit-oriented corridor', and they should have aligned better to the existing Central Peninsula plan from a cohesion perspective. But it's overall pretty reasonable.
My only issue is it's trying to do a ton of things at once. Focus should be on the Old North End, Main Street, and a couple of catalytic areas ripe for scaled action like Lansdowne and Fallsview. Mount Pleasant and Douglas don't need strategic guidance.
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