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Originally Posted by BuildUpWpg
I totally agree! The city screwed up big time a hundred years ago by selling off most of the river banks in the city to single family home owners. That goes against the grain of what most other cities who have kept their riverbanks as parkland all throughout their city.
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This is something that I think truly hurts our city...because we are in the prairies the ONLY interesting natural topographical feature we have is our rivers and they are largely inaccessible and in most cases not even viewable! The riverwalk from the forks to the village that everyone loves could have been a huge network going along the Red and the Assiniboine with branches coming off into different areas of town. It would have been beautiful, encouraged active transportation, and also just been healthy and therapeutic. People like to be near the water and in nature.
I admire that the city has really pushed active transportation paths in the last decade but look at the locations of most of them...alongside highways (I'm thinking the bishop grandin path) and near industrial land where space was available.
And it's not like private residential still couldn't be part of the plan, it would just have to be set back like 50-100 feet and those residences would still have river and park-like views. This was such a missed opportunity and something that will never be fixed.