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Barra on Queen | 7 fl | Complete
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By and large, this is right for when applied to this development. But it’s not true that it’s for the sake of “the nicety of the view we have when driving by” that we would want to put parking behind the buildings. Put car storage (driveways, parking lots, garage doors) adjacent to a street, and that’s not going to make for a walkable street that people want to use and spend time on.

Ideally, there would be shared parking behind the townhomes with a single driveway on one side, and buildings very close to the street. Ideally, the street would be calm enough that there is not excessive noise from the street, and not a perception of danger from it, and the street is quiet and calm enough that you have a lot of people on foot. Unfortunately, it’s Queen Street, so that’s unlikely to happen.

I use my front yard as a lot of other people use their backyards- there is traffic on my street, and the occasional noise from a driver who can’t apparently afford a new muffler, or from someone just driving too fast, which makes this a bit more difficult than it should be. On the whole, though, I like being there and saying ‘hello’ to the neighbours and so on. If we hadn’t let cars travel as fast as they now commonly do, we wouldn’t have needed the huge setbacks a lot of buildings have, and our land use would be a lot more efficient.

It’s a very good point about the townhomes on Park. I was just passing them last month with a friend, and we were commenting that they look great, but many of the residents obviously don’t use their front doors at all- in many cases, the snow hadn’t been shoveled; in some cases, there were even padlocks on the gates. Kind of a shame.
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Barra on Queen | 7 fl | Complete - by rangersfan - 09-18-2014, 09:55 PM
RE: Barra Castle on Queen | ? m | 7 fl | Proposed - by MidTowner - 03-16-2016, 01:39 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-07-2018, 11:33 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by taylortbb - 07-25-2018, 03:41 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by kitborn - 08-31-2018, 06:37 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by panamaniac - 08-31-2018, 08:31 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 09-28-2018, 03:29 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 09-28-2018, 03:43 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 09-28-2018, 05:31 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by clasher - 12-21-2018, 07:24 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 12-22-2018, 07:12 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by clasher - 12-22-2018, 11:04 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Rainrider22 - 12-22-2018, 12:29 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by KevinL - 12-22-2018, 12:52 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 12-22-2018, 10:53 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by clasher - 12-23-2018, 12:49 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jeffster - 12-23-2018, 01:23 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jgsz - 01-02-2019, 02:28 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 02-28-2019, 11:30 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 04-09-2019, 03:50 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 04-11-2019, 06:18 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 04-20-2019, 08:42 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 04-23-2019, 02:17 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 04-25-2019, 06:13 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 04-25-2019, 03:00 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 04-29-2019, 07:49 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 04-25-2019, 04:10 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 04-29-2019, 10:19 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 04-30-2019, 11:45 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by urbd - 05-09-2019, 10:46 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 05-09-2019, 12:07 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-09-2019, 01:32 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 05-09-2019, 02:15 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-09-2019, 03:24 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by mastermind - 05-14-2019, 07:38 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-14-2019, 10:57 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-14-2019, 12:31 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by rangersfan - 05-16-2019, 07:03 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 05-16-2019, 08:10 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 05-18-2019, 12:48 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jeffster - 05-18-2019, 09:46 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 05-22-2019, 07:28 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Acitta - 05-23-2019, 09:11 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Rainrider22 - 05-23-2019, 11:20 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by kitborn - 05-19-2019, 10:08 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jeffster - 05-19-2019, 10:12 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by samnabi - 05-22-2019, 01:10 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-06-2019, 02:52 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 06-07-2019, 06:40 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Belmonster - 06-08-2019, 08:39 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-08-2019, 12:52 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jamincan - 06-08-2019, 01:23 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by panamaniac - 06-08-2019, 01:53 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 08-15-2019, 09:20 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 08-30-2019, 10:00 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Momo26 - 09-09-2019, 12:17 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Chris - 09-09-2019, 12:54 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 09-09-2019, 02:44 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jgsz - 11-16-2019, 09:19 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by taylortbb - 11-16-2019, 02:53 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 11-16-2019, 11:17 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 11-19-2019, 12:04 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ZEBuilder - 11-19-2019, 12:16 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by KevinL - 11-19-2019, 02:00 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jgsz - 11-19-2019, 03:10 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Momo26 - 11-19-2019, 04:24 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 11-19-2019, 07:25 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Momo26 - 11-19-2019, 11:21 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-11-2020, 01:15 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-24-2020, 11:12 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 02-24-2020, 11:49 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Rainrider22 - 02-24-2020, 05:59 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Lens - 02-24-2020, 09:04 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by panamaniac - 02-25-2020, 04:12 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-25-2020, 10:51 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 07-20-2020, 02:10 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by westwardloo - 02-24-2020, 09:28 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-24-2020, 10:26 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ac3r - 02-25-2020, 06:52 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by panamaniac - 02-25-2020, 07:16 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jamincan - 02-25-2020, 08:22 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by westwardloo - 02-25-2020, 10:23 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-25-2020, 10:45 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by westwardloo - 02-25-2020, 12:29 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-26-2020, 11:33 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by panamaniac - 02-26-2020, 12:53 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by ac3r - 02-25-2020, 06:49 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 02-25-2020, 06:54 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by embe - 02-25-2020, 07:35 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by jamincan - 02-26-2020, 11:17 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by westwardloo - 02-26-2020, 12:16 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by taylortbb - 05-09-2020, 08:03 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 05-17-2020, 09:44 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Acitta - 05-19-2020, 06:33 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Bytor - 06-11-2020, 01:28 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-11-2020, 04:09 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 06-11-2020, 07:33 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-11-2020, 08:11 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Spokes - 06-12-2020, 12:28 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Momo26 - 06-11-2020, 08:14 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-11-2020, 08:25 PM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by Momo26 - 06-14-2020, 09:20 AM
RE: Barra on Queen | 7 fl | U/C - by tomh009 - 06-14-2020, 12:21 PM

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