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Originally Posted by Unlearn Relearn
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a shoebox is for shoes, many acres are for an EVENTS CENTRE that thinks about the future.
Highfield Square needs to become a beautiful park, with a small lake and ducks,
nice green grass with tall trees and people living close by will certainly appreciate this.
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First you argued that Highfield Square is too expensive to clean up in order to replace it with an events centre. Now you're suggesting that we spend extra funds to make it adequate for a lake and wildlife, and that we can wait a couple of decades for trees to be tall enough to give the feel of a rural park.
Then where residents in Lower Coverdale already enjoy a clean, quiet and pleasant rural area, we should build an events centre.
On cycling to Lower Coverdale: a lot of people would consider 8 kilometres to be far -- it's anywhere from 15 to 45 minutes depending on the person and type of bike. Having ridden a number of times on 114, I can also tell you that it's one of the rural roads I fear the most in the area because it's busy, narrow, has no paved shoulders, and drivers tend to speed. Just imagine riding on a bike back to Moncton in the dark after an event where thousands of drivers are trying to rush back home, many of whom had a drink or two.
I was looking at Google maps and I see that the area you own is already all clear-cut, and that there are small subdivisions just north (Duffy) and south (Baxter and Dryden) of your property. Couldn't you make an easy sale to the developers of those subdivisions? The new events centre might not have to be located at Highfield Square, but do you realistically think that there's a chance your proposal might become reality? My advice: sell.