Monday, May 11
City Council (5:30 pm): Highlights include proposed alterations to the exterior of the Leader Building, a condo conversion on Froom Crescent, an extension of seasonal taxicab licenses, special event funding, and a change to the Official Community Plan so that the city could charge development levies. At the end of the schedule -- so you can bet it'll sail through without any problems -- is a proposal to convert a Warehouse District building at 1916 Dewdney into offices. Wouldn't be such a bad idea, except the applicant will be demolishing a building to the north of 1916 Dewdney to make way for -- you guessed it -- more paved surface parking! Joy! Once again, instead of an old building being restored or a new one being built to attract more business into a community, we get a swathe of asphalt. Nice work. Apparently, based on its square meterage, 1916 Dewdney would usually require 73 parking spots but since it is within the historic Warehouse District that requirement is dropped to 37 stalls. The developer, however, is proposing 84 stalls.
Wednesday, May 13
Regina Planning Commission (4 pm): This meeting will be devoted to the Regina Downtown Neighbourhood Plan. I suspect there'll be a presentation by Jennifer Keesmat and the Office for Urbanism crew. I'll admit that so far I'm pretty pleased with how the plan looks, though I must confess I haven't read it closely. The one section I'm especially impressed by is the Built Form Framework, which lays out guidelines for any new construction or building renovation work. Hope it's passed without alteration but I suspect it'll be the most contentious part of the plan. As mentioned earlier, finding the plan on the city website can be a challenge so you can avoid the frustration of searching for yourself by clicking here.
As always, you can download full agendas and reports from the city's website.
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2 comments:
Anytime somebody says "I want to level this building and put in a parking lot" they ought to be given this choice:
1) Demolish the building, sure, but build a new one that has a ground level store front, and a few levels of above- or below-ground parking in it.
2) Stick with what you've got.
Absolutely. I'm a little surprised that in this case the surface parking is being allowed because (among other things) the developer is going to put in some kind of landscaping treatment to mitigate the lot's impact on the street. Yeah, shrubbery solves everything. Thanks for that.
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