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OPINION: 'Downtown Guelph isn't failing, it's asking us to show up'
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31Sorry, but 90% of the woes Downtown are directly the fault of Council and staff. 125 parking spots were removed when they moved the buses and built the new city hall. Another 300 were taken away they decided to put the new library in the Baker St. lot. 4 businesses and a 3-story apartment building were demoed at the north end of Wyndham so that the new condo dwellers could have a better view of the Diana restaurant. The new un-used parking building on Wilson could have and should have been built on city-owned land on Neeve St.And moving the buses from the square was the beginning of the end because now no one hops off to shop, they just use their transfer to get onto the next bus and go right homeRents are massively and greedily high, but leaving the City out of the equation is being defensive and perhaps even verges on being either woefully naive or even being disingenuous.
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27 Guelph convenience stores (so far) approved to sell booze in September
GuelphToday 1190% will be sold to people on foot, that is the whole point. Drunk driving will go down, not up, there will be less carbon footprint, and our neighbours who own the local corner stores will benefit immensely. How can people criticize a win-win-win?
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Downtown location ‘isn’t the best’ for CTS, says mayor
GuelphToday 25Pretty easy things to say unless you are a Downtown merchant or someone who used to like to shop there. I spent $1,000,000 in rent downtown in 30 years, and created another million in sales tax, there is a massive difference between gritty and what it is now which is criminalized and insane and drug-addled. Ironically though, Council set this all in motion when they tried to beautify it and the result lead to no normal business being able to afford the increased rents. Hence very little other than bars and restaurants and pot shops.
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Hospital or national urban park? Nearly 350 acres of former jail land
GuelphToday 14You won't get anywhere using logic like that. These are generally nice people who don't seem to realize just how bigoted they are. I want lots of things, but what I will need is a new hospital, and there will be so much land left over that there could still be a mix of parkland and maybe even some housing. The writing was on the on the wall when Wet/Dry and Cargill went in.
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Hospital or national urban park? Nearly 350 acres of former jail land
GuelphToday 8When a Conservative Mayor, a Green MPP, and a Liberal MP all agree on something, maybe the writing is on the wall and you folk should find an easier cause.
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27 Guelph convenience stores (so far) approved to sell booze in September
GuelphToday 4In the early '70's Zellers on Eramosa sold handguns including 357 Magnums. Maybe we are more American than we like to think.
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Public meeting set for proposed 14-storey downtown building
GuelphToday 4It may be outside of the view corridor, it is taken from halfway up the Eramosa Rd hill, and there must be a view of the rose windows,and this is probably to the left of it. But the whole thing should be re-visited, no one can see anything when leaves are on the tress, and it isn't the 1800's anymore.
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Ed Video announces new executive director
GuelphToday 2A wonderful choice to take over for a wonderful person who did a wonderful job.
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48-unit Habitat for Humanity project meets opposition
GuelphToday 1Unless Guelph only has 4 directional "ends", this is more like slightly NE of Downtown. And I think any infill should preclude the west end or south end completely unless they address the horribleness of the transit system.
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OPINION: 'Downtown Guelph isn't failing, it's asking us to show up'
GuelphTodayI doubt that headlines like today's "Man Charged With Trying To Urinate On Strangers In Downtown Guelph" are going to help any.
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