04-30-2020, 02:49 PM
(04-30-2020, 02:43 PM)KingandWeber Wrote: At the risk of stirring the pot, I highly doubt (but could be wrong) that it was the Region's idea to install the fences. Very likely, the business owners required, as part of their negotiations for the purchase of that strip of property, that the Region build a fence. If that is the case, then the question really becomes if this compromise was worth it for the ends of building the connection, or if we should not have bothered since it does not provide a good pedestrian experience.
You may be right (and I'm told that if it was a government's decision, it was CoK), I completely agree that raises the question of whether the compromise was worth it, or even if they could just have pushed for a different situation. But MOST of all, why it is that businesses on this street want to limit their customer's access to their businesses. It is a systemic problem in this area.