Garbage will be sucked underground in proposed Edmonton airport lands development
BY SHEILA PRATT, EDMONTONJOURNAL.COM MAY 26, 2012 8:02 PM
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An artist's view of the proposed design of the city centre airport redevelopment.
Photograph by: Supplied , edmontonjournal.com
EDMONTON - Noisy garbage trucks won’t be rumbling down neighbourhood streets in the new City Centre Airport Lands. Instead, residents will dump their bags of waste into street-level garbage chutes that connect to an underground vacuum collection system, which will whisk the bags off to a nearby sorting plant.
The proposed community of 30,000 will also have “agri-hoods,” a term coined to describe residential areas with large green spaces between block of apartments and townhouses where people can grow food, city architect Barry Johns told about 250 people at the Food in the City Conference in the first update on the airport lands in many months.
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