LGBTQ2+ National Monument | Proposed

[zzptichka]

Originally Posted by JayBuoy

I am soooo annoyed at the excessive amount of monuments in the capital. This area will literally have nothing but monuments! Its a monument graveyard in one of the most pedestrian unfriendly places in the city.,

I don't mind this particular location since there is no much you can do there anyway. But what they are doing at Lebreton is really sad.

Originally Posted by JayBuoy

Can the NCC for the love of god do something with the parking lots behind parliament and the supreme court? Talk about wasted space

Now the location behind the Supreme Court, with its abandoned fountain and parking lot, is a great place for a monument. And LGBTQ+ monument would've been very appropriate there.

[JayBuoy]

Originally Posted by zzptichka

Now the location behind the Supreme Court, with its abandoned fountain and parking lot, is a great place for a monument. And LGBTQ+ monument would've been very appropriate there.

I appreciate when a statue or monument is integrated into a place where people already go and congregate.

On the other hand this monument is being built like its a going to attract people to this place. Give me a break. It'll be used maybe twice a year for pride or some festival and then remain empty and forgotten the rest of the year round.

Its marginal space, its liminal. Its noisy from traffic. Are people actually happy to have a monument to a marginal group in a marginal place, alongside monuments the government would rather forget about?

[Uhuniau]

Originally Posted by JayBuoy

Can the NCC for the love of god do something with the parking lots behind parliament and the supreme court? Talk about wasted space

Seriously, though! The primest of real estate.

[Uhuniau]

Originally Posted by JayBuoy

I am soooo annoyed at the excessive amount of monuments in the capital. This area will literally have nothing but monuments! Its a monument graveyard in one of the most pedestrian unfriendly places in the city.,

I mean, it's a national capital, and there's gonna be monuments galore, but some of these are so badly thought out and located.

The Lebreton "Monument District" is especially galling. Despite the overbuilt road widths cutting through it, the rights of way are actually on a par with Washington's avenues. Given our endless Washington envy in this town, we could have had Washington-style avenues, but with well-built, street-addressing architecture to give some energy and urbanity to what is now planned to be a windswept plain in perpetuity. It is so hostile.

I worry about the location of the LGBTQ monument making it prime for vandalism and nefarious activities.

[OTownandDown]

Originally Posted by Uhuniau

I worry about the location of the LGBTQ monument making it prime for vandalism and nefarious activities.

Lovers' walk v. 2?

What would the NCC have to talk about at their board meetings if the area was fully developed?

[J.OT13]

Board Meeting Presentation from yesterday:

https://ncc-website-2.s3.amazonaws.c...I-Monument.pdf

[J.OT13]

I've been thinking, it's really not such a huge monument, now that I think of it. It's really just a pathway through a park with a monument in the middle and a few interpretation plaques. This, and the small navy monument nearby, aren't so bad compared to the Victims of Communism or the Afghanistan Monument.

[pattherat]

The thread title says “Booth st”, is this really Booth street?

Seems like it is way over east of booth and nearer Wellington and the bridge.

[J.OT13]

Originally Posted by pattherat

The thread title says “Booth st”, is this really Booth street?

Seems like it is way over east of booth and nearer Wellington and the bridge.

Corrected. Thank you.

[movebyleap]

ANOTHER monument?!? Enough already!