Silence&Motion
Senior Member
I dunno, these proposals all look pretty bad to me. That little, isolated retail intersection, blocks away from the LRT stop and 1st Ave (in opposite directions), seems doomed to failure. Communities aren't built around single intersections; they're built around main streets that take them to important amenities and services. A real transit-oriented neighbourhood would be one in which people getting off the LRT would find themselves immediately on a retail-lined main street that would take them through the neighbourhood and toward their home, allowing them to stop to pick up groceries or other conveniences along the way. The obvious main streets here are 9th Street and McDougall.