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[danbrotherston]

It was a catholic school (Notre Dame School) closed in 2010

2010 Article

The property also fronted onto Sherwood to the south (except for the 5 homes at sherwood & rosemount). They put up the 7 pairs of semis fronting onto Sherwood in 2015. You can see how it used to look in streetview

And they didn’t put in a pedestrian path from Sherwood into the corner of the development? Unbelievable.

Also, what’s with the labyrinth of little driveways with the houses just numbered from 1 up to n? Why can’t they give each piece a name and assign the house numbers normally? It would be way better for driving directions. Almost all townhouse areas seem to be like this.

Yes, that's a bit of a shame. But it's a bit dependent. I looked at the map to look at what destinations would be in that direction, if there are no destinations, it probably makes no difference (i.e., if you're going downtown, you're going to walk far enough for the difference not to matter), but there is a convenience store and Church right at Krug which has doubled the walking distance.  I'm betting for a lot of people that's the difference between walking to Church and driving. It's still not far, but people drive lots of 1/2 km trips.

This is the type of thing that I guarantee you not one single city planner anywhere involved in this or any related project looked at.  But at least they have the one on the other side connecting to the school. That's probably the most important. Now if only there was a safe crossing of that ridiculous 1960s four lane wide residential street.