05-17-2017, 11:00 PM
(05-17-2017, 08:40 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: Yes, the exisiting parkade isn't going anywhere any time soon.
In scrolling through the documents I noticed the "safe access route" which I interpret as emergency exit plan.
It seems very convoluted.
Residents would travel to the top of the parking podium (P5), enter at floor 6 at the north end of the public health building via the bridge, walk the length of the building, descend to floor two, find their way around the rotunda to another newly constructed bridge/stairwell, descended to the ground level exiting at the south end of the public health building:
http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresourc...df#page=26
Edit: Upon further reading this route is only for flooding related to a "regional storm is a storm with the equivalent magnitude of Hurricane Hazel (1954)." Residents require a passage out of their building, through floodwaters that are no deeper than 0.8 metres below the Regional Flood Elevation which is 324.30m at the site. The route gets them to essentially the Marbles patio which is at 323.50m or exactly the 0.8m needed.
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[url=http://www.waterloo.ca/en/contentresources/resources/business/Z_17_07_safe_access.pdf]Full safe access report
Disappointing. Building an entire bridge and then using it *only* for emergency access.
This city is terrible for taking opportunities to link buildings and provide covered or protected walkways. I’m looking at you, transit hub. Now here they are linking two otherwise unrelated buildings, but the only permitted use will be during an extremely rare flood event. It would not be the slightest bit surprising if it was literally never used before one or the other of the two buildings was demolished in the natural course of evolution of the city.