Comment 32218

By jason (registered) | Posted June 30, 2009 at 18:14:33

So you're telling me that downtown Hamilton is currently sitting at 200 j/p per hectare, EVEN with the vast, hellish acres and acres of empty land and parking lots???
So with this snazzy new plan, maybe we'll see one of every ten lots built on (with a 2-storey stucco slab box).

Underwhelming is right.

Downtown target isn't much higher than the target for Eastgate for pete's sake. A suburban district with streets like Queenston and Centennial is only going to be slightly less dense than our downtown?

It would seem to me that we could double our downtown density simply by building on empty lots. And what's with the 'maximum' of 500 units for any new building downtown?? So, if Donald Trump wants to come along and build a mega-tower with 1,000 units are we going to say "Sorry pal. Your proposal uses our land and infrastructure services too wisely. Cut it in half, add a surface parking lot, and then maybe we'll talk".

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