(09-09-2021, 11:35 AM)jamincan Wrote: We should really reconsider the categories we use in this section, because this is just going to keep coming up over and over. Instead of making it easier to find a thread, the categories we have make it harder. (This is valid in other sections as well where categories overlap.) I would suggest changing the four categories to Kitchener, Waterloo, Cambridge, and Townships. This is completely unambiguous and would serve people a lot better.
Not a bad idea. Maybe have a Waterloo forum with subforums for Urban and Suburban, likewise for Kitchener and Cambridge.
They way it was explained to me now is ambiguous. King and Weber are apparently urban, even if it's a stretch of those roads that are 15-20km+ from what an urban planner would call urban (i.e. the urban core of a city centre; downtown, midtown; uptown). That doesn't make much sense to me because then suddenly Weber by Northfield could be considered urban, despite being a stone's throw away from farmland. Likewise, King East could be urban, even though it's by the Grand River).
I mean, what we have works okay since we are long time lurkers, but then you get projects like this where, for someone who works in urban planning very often, I would not consider this project or Elevate Condos as urban, hence why I put this here and wondered and Elevate is in Urban.
Nonetheless, this is a discussion that had apparently been had already and this thread is about a building project, so I don't want to detail it with semantic minutiae within the first few pages. Mods, feel free to move it where you feel suitable.
As for the project itself, it's nice to see more density outside the cores of the cities. The Schwaben Club will be missed (fond memories of going to punk, noise and experimental music shows there in my youth and taking lots of drugs lol) but it seems like it didn't get much use lately.