[AJX]

Jack Long Park

New park in Inglewood (can’t recall the name of it)

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[DiscoStu]

My office is next door to Jack Long Park. It was supposed to be finished last summer, but when they started digging they found some random buried junk on site, and needed to assess whether it was of historical nature (I don't believe it turned out to be), so it was pushed back. It was supposed to be finished this summer again, but I'm just glad to see it active.

 

[GoVertical]

Renovations to the Cliff Bungalow/Mission Safeway been going for a while now:

 

[Calgcouver]

Renovations to the Cliff Bungalow/Mission Safeway been going for a while now:View attachment 275456

I hope it stays with the Moscow Safeway theme.

 

[1875]

i think they brought in the century park crew for this job

 

[adamyyc]

It’s a challenge to renovate while keeping the store open and minimizing impacts to operations.

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Yeah, I go there two or three times a month and think they're doing a pretty good job considering how tiny the store is. It'll be nice when the expansion and renovation is done, hopefully before I move next summer.

 

[Calgcouver]

Nothing like having a contextual setback for R-C2 and R-CG to relate to existing bungalows, when the final condition of the street is nothing like it and none of the bungalows are left. So you can build towns or semi-detached in the inner-city with a typical front setback of 7-9m, or 1m in R-G in the burbs. Why do we give more urban front setbacks in Mahogany than in West Hillhurst? Contextual setbacks are completely idiotic and produce such bad outcomes (postage stamp backyards, huge unused grass front setback areas) for inner city streets.

For example, tiny backyards, huge front lawns, one bungalow left on the street to dictate the setback (Altadore):

"Inner City infill" Altadore:

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"Urban Infill" West Hillhurst:

Suburban Mckenzie Towne:

Suburban Walden:

Even Single-family in the suburbs have more favourable interaction with the street and more reasonable setbacks:

Contextual setbacks have ruined our ability to create more urban streetscapes in the inner-city for decades, only to appease neighbours today. Whereas it is genuinely easier to build denser more urban forms of housing in the new suburbs.

 

[GoVertical]

East side of 5 street underpass is partially complete:

 

[1875]

i was hoping they put in a physical barrier for the bike lane, looks like that didnt happen. take it they will be planting trees, nice touch if they live

 

[haltcatchfire]

There's no barrier but there is a raised curb so it's separated.

 

[GoVertical]

 

[UrbanWarrior]

Haha all yeah man I was just there!


District Beltline...

 

[Beazley66]

i think they brought in the century park crew for this job

Anyone actually know who the GC is for this? (Meaning the Safeway reno)
Nevermind, got it. Went to the site.

 

[Beazley66]

Traffic calming circle in Inglewood. I believe this is what @Beazley66 was referring to earlier in an earlier post.
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That's the one. Peds, cyclists and drivers have to get used to it. I've counted 7 near misses, including one of my own. What drivers need to get used to is the use of their signaling left or right, to give oncoming traffic an idea of which direction their going in. As an example an east bound vehicle of the owner living in that charming mansion has to circle around to engage what's left of north bound 13th street. She did that but did not signal west bound me that she was going to complete the loop as opposed to continuing eastbound on 8th Ave. It was quite close, including a colourful gesture by her. Anyway,I belabor the point. We all have to adjust. I drove in Doha, Qatar for a number of years. It's a place that thrives on traffic circles, but picture 4 lanes and a game of chicken. So, I can get over this one.