$30,000 per parking space? An eyesore between two historic buildings?
This decision has truly shattered my faith in the leadership and decision making abilities of you and this council . I can’t express how disappointed I am in the approval of this project, particularly so quickly, seemingly with little debate.
My optimism and hope for this city is fading.
Five storeys . . . Just enough to ruin the view / sightlines between the Church of Our Lady grounds and the new admin centre, with its lovely restored stone wall on the east side of Wilson St.
The expensive new admin centre has very limited parking in order to be LEEDs certified, and you’ll be able to trumpet about that, but really, the 500-spot parking garage right beside it kind of annuls that achievement in my mind. If you must build more parking, why not build on the parking lot between Macdonnell and Cork St.? Seems to me that’s a better spot. Why not close part of a downtown street or make it one way to allow for more angle parking? It works in Europe; doesn’t Guelph have the guts to try it out? Why not build an underground parking lot instead of an eyesore? Why isn’t the Baker St. garage enough?
Furthermore, I’m amazed that this decision goes directly against the city’s own growth and planning policy.
Please, please reconsider.
Public transit infrastructure planning is what we need; I happen to agree with many of the great ideas of David Graham, and am glad to hear he’s been at council, trying in vain to convince you to do something for this now-well-behind-the-times city’s infrastructure that will work in the true long term. BS