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salsa
Senior Member
Not a big fan of the ground floor design.
For some reason, these wavy balconies on Expo 1 have not been replicated on Expo 2.
Expo 2:
innsertnamehere
Superstar
far too much distance from the sidewalk there. These suburban arterials are already so wide, they need to skinny up the width of the sidewalks a bit. having 5 meter lot line setbacks simply doesn't work.
savevp
Active Member
I'm not sure, but I believe they may be widening the road to create viva rapidways here.
salsa
Senior Member
But the road has already been widened here, as you can tell by the new sidewalks.
sixrings
Senior Member
I think the set back is right. The bigger the roadthe farther it should be back. Cars drive here like it is the 407
salsa
Senior Member
There is a pit directly adjacent to this development, on the north side. Anyone know what it's for?
cplchanb
Senior Member
They are starting Expo 3 with eventual development to Expo 5
leprechaun
New Member
Why oh why don't they hide all these cable under the ground...
salsa
Senior Member
There was a recent conversation about that in the Viva thread. Take a look:
http://urbantoronto.ca/forum/thread...davis-dr-highway-7.19768/page-34#post-1054226
Adjei
Senior Member
Lost opportunity there. How you dig up the whole street and leaves it up there. Do the proper job and stop being cheap.
Solaris
Senior Member
It is not a matter of being cheap, it is simple mathematics in sensible municipal finance.
No government in their right mind would fund excessive costs such as these just to bury hydro lines, unless they want to be SIGNIFICANTLY raising property taxes or applying special property tax assessments, but one can imagine the citizen unrest that would create
Don't take me wrong, I would love to see hydro lines buried too as a Planner in Urban Design, but unfortunately the reality sets in
No government in their right mind would fund excessive costs such as these just to bury hydro lines, unless they want to be SIGNIFICANTLY raising property taxes or applying special property tax assessments, but one can imagine the citizen unrest that would create
Don't take me wrong, I would love to see hydro lines buried too as a Planner in Urban Design, but unfortunately the reality sets in
Adjei
Senior Member
It is not a matter of being cheap, it is simple mathematics in sensible municipal finance.
No government in their right mind would fund excessive costs such as these just to bury hydro lines, unless they want to be SIGNIFICANTLY raising property taxes or applying special property tax assessments, but one can imagine the citizen unrest that would create
Don't take me wrong, I would love to see hydro lines buried too as a Planner in Urban Design, but unfortunately the reality sets in
Yeah right. I wonder why many places around the world are able to do it without citizen revolts.
maestro
Senior Member
They were likely buried at the onset. It should have been done here but, it wasn't. Rapid growth isn't an excuse but, is a cause for these type of decisions. Zoning in this case mainly industrial may have been another Anyways, different story to decide to bury existing infrastructure.
leprechaun
New Member
Well, then they obviously prefer massive blackouts after each freezing rain.