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Originally Posted by Haussmanniste
RE: LRT. You clearly don't understand my point. It doens't matter where they run. What matters is where they shouldn't run. i.e. in beautiful capital greenspace?
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Greenspace is crap.
Greenspace is wasted space.
This city, and the NCC, have a total greenspace fetish that leads to massive economic and energy inefficients, bad planning decisions, and a deterioriated environment.
The few hundred linear metres, times, what, a couple tens of horizontal metres, of blessed g.d. stupid greenspace that would have to be given up near the stupid four-lane Carway is worth the price.
Worth it economically. Worth it environmentally. Worth it from a planning standpoint.
No one in Nanaimo or North Sydney or Noranda gives a flying flap about this, so the NCC can take the "capital for all Canadians" crap and shove it.
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Plant shrubs and grass? You honestly think that's it? If it wasn't for the NCC, there wouldn't be places to plant shrubs and grass. The City of Ottawa would have paved it and approved condos. The only large "park" in the downtown area owned by the City is Lansdowne Park.
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Good. Downtown has no shortage of greenspace, and Lansdowne never was, nor should be, a "park" in the sense of pointless stupid grass and shrubs. Think Fenway Park.
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I'm glad they have the right to say no. The City of Ottawa will always need a higher level of government to keep them in check and to stop them from ruining this city any more.
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The ruination comes from the NCC and the OMB. Let the city run itself.
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These "heritage buildings" are on Sussex Drive, a ceremonial route that many people Ottawans and Canadians alike will use.
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"use" for what? The RCMP motorcade escorting the PM to and from 24 Sussex? The GG, once every five years, riding a carriage from his/her installation ceremony?
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The last thing we want visitors, both national and international, to see are turn of the century "working-class" homes. The less of those we see, the better.
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What, the brutalist trophy buildings that the feds built or approved along sussex - Lester B., those anus-ugly embassies - are an improvement?
[/quote]The NCC is the only government entity in Ottawa (municipal, provincial, federal) that actually gives a damn about how this city looks[/quote]
Also the only government entity that is accountable to NO ONE. Their idea of aesthetics is grass, four-lane "drives", and hideous brutalistic federal architecture.
Abolish the NCC. Abolish, abolish, abolish, abolish, abolish, abolish.
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and how it is perceived by people coming here for the first time. The City approves some of the ugliest buildings
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As does the NCC: Lester B, the National Arts Centre, Confederation Heights, Tunney's Pasture, the Hull office complexes, etc., etc., etc.
ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH ABOLISH.