01-29-2018, 12:18 PM
There will be opportunities to do things like the Iron Horse Trail at Glasgow, Gildner Green, but there are opportunity costs there as well - that space seems like it could have easily been a dozen or more of the neighbouring single family homes, had those streets extended and Edna run adjacent to the Trail. It's not surprising that the city doesn't leap at the thought of taking what is millions in land value and buying it to make a tiny park. This is where as-of-right zoning, to be able to build mid-rise anywhere in heritage zones (1/3 of Kitchener's core), would make everyone's property equally valuable, and thus less pricey, making it easier for both the city to buy land to turn into parks, as well as for SFH-owners to sell their property, without having to first go through all sorts of hoops, to someone who might redevelop it into a 4- or 6-storey medium density neighbourhood apartment or condo.