The NVSD provided a sneak peek of some potential options for the redevelopment of the Lucas Centre. It wasn’t pretty and it ignores the input and suggestions the community has made about the site in the past. We need to make sure that everyone (numbers count!) comes out next week to express your opinions about what they have proposed.
Just so there aren’t any surprises – there will be 5 options that range in terms of residential developments. Some have 50 single family homes (150 potential families) and no grass field to the worst of the lot being 3 large towers (14 stories, 12 stories and 10 stories) comprising of 525 families. Yes – you read that correctly!!!
This is where the games begin. Please keep the following in mind:
- “They” are going to try to make you feel that you have to give up something in order to get something – this is NOT true. We don’t have to give up any of our expectations
- “They” will post an option as a red herring – like the towers – again to try to get you to accept something better than that option
- Don’t fall for the pretty in the picture (i.e. the green space) and ignore the ugly
- Diagrams are not to scale
- Traffic numbers are completely unrealistic (for all options)
- This is only step 1 – any requested changes will still have to go through a full public hearing with the City
- Please post all comments – they are ranking issues by the number of post-it notes!
Please make time on Wednesday April 16th (5:00 pm to 8:00 pm) to come out and voice your opinion. All comments are critical. The more people that are aware, the better as everyone will be impacted by these potential changes.
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