Drewlo Waterloo (née Waterloo Motor Inn) | 8x 16-28 fl | proposed

[bravado]

They have just allowed developers to plan competing poorly thought-out sites that will be disconnected from the surrounding community. Its like they are building an urban suburb.

Last time I talked to City of Waterloo planners about this (which admittedly was a few years ago) they said this was intentional. The argument was that Waterloo can only support a finite amount of urban-ness, so if they allowed anything outside of uptown to be urban then it would draw businesses and customers away from uptown and threaten the success of uptown.

I like the idea of planners deciding the best plan was to discourage financially-productive construction that's so funny