02-09-2021, 10:56 AM
(02-09-2021, 10:24 AM)westwardloo Wrote: Looks like this project is stalled by at least 1 month. Lots of typical concerns from local residents and heritage groups, doesn't "fit" the neighbourhood, too tall, demolition of old (some people consider heritage) houses.
https://www.therecord.com/news/waterloo-...month.html (Paywall, full article can be read if you have the record app)
"Other concerns included demolishing of two large brick century homes, including a house built by Jacob Baetz, a prominent builder and city councillor who was inducted into the region’s Hall of Fame."
If Baetz was a prominent builder, wouldn't there be a number of other houses (built by him) in the city?
The building is tall next to Queen St but much lower along Mill St. And along Mill St, there are only a few neighbours: the project backs onto the IHT, and on the other side of the street are three houses in the process of being donated by the region plus the REEP house, and there are maybe four other houses in the "block" bounded by Mill St, Queen St and the IHT/railway.
Behind the four houses across the street is Schneider Creek, and on the other side of IHT/railway are a commercial property, a large townhouse complex and a park. This is really on the edge of a neighbourhood, not in the middle of it.