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RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - timc - 04-27-2016
(04-27-2016, 07:16 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.
I imagine there is a decent revenue stream coming out of parking bylaw enforcement in Northdale.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - darts - 04-27-2016
(04-27-2016, 07:16 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.
It's nice having the streets empty for when there is a heavy snow.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - BuildingScout - 04-27-2016
(04-27-2016, 08:44 PM)darts Wrote: It's nice having the streets empty for when there is a heavy snow.
Other places seem to manage with the same or more snow than us, e.g. Buffalo and Rochester.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - tomh009 - 04-27-2016
(04-27-2016, 07:51 PM)timc Wrote:(04-27-2016, 07:16 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: Or they could, gasp, allow (at least in Northdale) on street parking like most cities in this planet do.
I imagine there is a decent revenue stream coming out of parking bylaw enforcement in Northdale.
You could replace that with a street parking permit revenue stream ...
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Pheidippides - 05-05-2016
I stumbled across this proposal, the South Commons Conceptual Plan, for renovations to the south main entrance of the University of Waterloo.
It looks like a phased approach to what was in the last campus master plan (2009).
The request for pre-qualification has already closed and the contract is expected to be awarded in spring of 2016 with construction completed during summer of 2016.
Also, the campus master plan is on the agenda for the board of governors building and properties committee for May of 2016, but I think that is just an annual thing done every May or as needed and not the initiation of a full formal update.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Markster - 05-05-2016
I hear tell of earthworks already getting underway in the grad house green
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - timio - 05-06-2016
Update from last Monday's Daily Bulletin.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - rangersfan - 05-12-2016
I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Markster - 05-12-2016
(05-12-2016, 05:45 PM)rangersfan Wrote: I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.
Yes.
They're becoming a parking lot for 1 Columbia.
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - rangersfan - 05-12-2016
That's ugly
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Pheidippides - 05-12-2016
(05-12-2016, 07:00 PM)Markster Wrote:(05-12-2016, 05:45 PM)rangersfan Wrote: I see the two houses on the King St side next to 1 Columbia are fenced off.
I suspect a project is underway here.
Yes.
They're becoming a parking lot for 1 Columbia.
How is that allowed?
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Markster - 05-12-2016
(05-12-2016, 09:24 PM)Pheidippides Wrote: How is that allowed?
You can read all about it at this post from last August:
http://www.waterlooregionconnected.com/showthread.php?tid=80&pid=10425#pid10425
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - Pheidippides - 06-12-2016
Progress on the "south commons" project as of yesterday:
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - notmyfriends - 06-12-2016
They've also started work on the St.Paul's expansion, I noticed yesterday. Fewer and fewer open spaces on campus accessible.
https://uwaterloo.ca/stpauls/campus-expansion
RE: General University Area Updates and Rumours - tomh009 - 06-13-2016
(06-12-2016, 11:32 PM)notmyfriends Wrote: Fewer and fewer open spaces on campus accessible.
Yes. It's definitely not 1986 any more.