Comment 97749

By John Neary (registered) | Posted February 20, 2014 at 10:57:13 in reply to Comment 97745

Ryan, there isn't really any significant travel time from Dr. Davey to the park Unlike at Strathcona the school property is directly adjacent to the park, not across the street.

On the other hand, Beasley Park is significantly smaller than Victoria Park and is less well-suited to the needs of schoolchildren. Three cul-de-sacs (Kelly St off Mary, Kelly St off Ferguson, and Elgin St off Cannon), the Cannon Knitting Mills, the Lockwood Motors property, the old community centre, and the transformer station all cut into the footprint of the park. The amount of space that is located at a safe distance from roads is very small -- by contrast, Victoria Park is a complete rectangle (on a larger footprint) and the "deep" part of Victoria Park is enormous. The green space in Beasley Park is not large enough to support a soccer field.

As a parent in the neighbourhood (whose older child might attend Dr. Davey in the autumn), I would say while the park is the simplest solution it is also the least effective. The root of the problem is that the HWDSB did not invest enough money in providing an adequate footprint for this school and then misused the footprint they have by using more of it for parking than for a schoolyard. The better solutions address these errors directly rather than trying to use the park as a schoolyard for which it is poorly suited.

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