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Originally Posted by SASKFTW
It's no Okotoks, but certainly deserving of interest.
Here comes the sun
Darren Bernhardt, The StarPhoenix
Published: Friday, August 29, 2008
...Suncastle Park is our contribution . . . towards making Saskatchewan a cleaner, brighter place to live."
© The StarPhoenix (Saskatoon) 2008
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I think this will serve as a great demonstration project for the technology, but the location is a huge drawback. Since this is esentially an isolated acreage community, presumeably many of the residents will offset the environmental benefit by commuting to the city for work, and since they will be driving on rural roads, they will of course want SUVs (you don;t see a lot of smart cars or transit on the existing acreage communities). I hope I am being unnecessarily cynical (e.g. maybe all the residents will be home based workers), but I doubt it. Why not buy a swath of land in Pleasant Hill where the land is cheap and build them there? Or even in one of the existing suburbs, which at least give some hope of alternative transportation being used.