tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post5487065516148759491..comments2024-01-14T14:15:01.131-06:00Comments on The Rise and Sprawl: The antidote to sprawl?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-91289763999800402112010-10-14T07:31:30.682-05:002010-10-14T07:31:30.682-05:00Do YOU want highrise apartments in YOUR backyard?...Do YOU want highrise apartments in YOUR backyard? While I like the idea of developing the railyards, highrise apartments just aren't condusive to community building, in my view. <br />I see a developer who doesn't live here, doesn't understand the neighbourhood, and just wants to make money (as can be attested by the fact that the number of rental units in the development seems to keep shrinking, even in a city with an abyssmally low rental rate). <br />And the population density was because of FAMILIES, not 1800 more adults moving into a neighbourhood, who drive cars (who are we kidding that all these people will ride the bus, even a shiny new one on its own special route?). Which driving route, exactly, are they going to take? Because right now, it takes me almost an hour to get through the bottle neck of Osborne Village during rush hour to get home on the bus...which I can only see as increasing in time with the estimated 240 - 300 rides they are estimating.<br />Developing the yards? good idea. The plan they currently have well thought out? Not so much.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-13227491932493100672010-09-30T20:35:35.708-05:002010-09-30T20:35:35.708-05:00Sophia, if Winnipeg neighborhoods were filling up ...Sophia, if Winnipeg neighborhoods were filling up and regaining density at a decent pace, I could hardly be bothered by sprawl at the city's edges. Unfortunately, the City has made doing one a whole lot easier than doing the other, and urban infill is harder to do than new suburbs. <br /><br />Thanks, I will check out that link.The Rise and Sprawlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05870657912534505662noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-70913302370657373442010-09-30T14:27:21.271-05:002010-09-30T14:27:21.271-05:00"Winnipeg's established neighborhoods nee..."Winnipeg's established neighborhoods need about 100 more developments like this."<br /><br />THANK YOU!<br />If we can't stop the sprawl, can we at least have proper street-oriented development are my thoughts. Of course, we blow past all the things that should be "normal".<br /><br />This is one of my twitter updates already, but what do you think of this?<br /><br />It's called BGBX<br />http://www.architectmagazine.com/multifamily/bgbx.aspx<br /><br />They are also responsible for Youcube at Waterfront, which I last saw exhibited at Emily Carr for Twenty + Change (www.twentyandchange.org).Sophiahttp://ywg.posterous.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10100067.post-13402673087202710332010-09-27T20:27:16.729-05:002010-09-27T20:27:16.729-05:00good commentary. this development will be good for...good commentary. this development will be good for the area and good for the city..https://www.blogger.com/profile/07474927184683300671noreply@blogger.com