Miscellaneous

[northlands]

Makes sense. I misinterpreted the PU zoning in the southern end of the park to be parking.

I believe it's actually a dry pond area for heavy rainfall events (hence the weird civil grading and why it can't be used for sports fields).

What I don’t understand on these projects is the priority being “evenly dispersing” these sorts of builds instead of aligning them with the plethora of other goals we have around sustainability, active transportation, 15min communities, and nodes.

is this the right place? 20% of most Canadians’ spending is transportation. Is car dependent affordable housing actually affordable?

Agreed. Seems like a really odd choice for this type of project, since Wedgewood is one of the least walkable and most car dependent neighbourhoods within the Henday. At least there's a nearby grocery store and bus stop nearby, but basically nothing else, including assumedly the services the residents may want to access (healthcare, social services, recreation centres, post secondaries, etc).

 

[policyenthusiast]

This makes me smile! One of the city's biggest eyesores.....

That's former eyesore to you, sir. Edmonton has lost one of her finest... shopping cart holding facilities.

 

[ADob]

Another one bites the dust. Big fire at the abandoned Iginla Law building this morning. Apologies for the crap photos but it was too cold to open the balcony door to get some clarity. Multiple fire trucks on scene, firefighters in full gear. I'm assuming they evacuated the apartment building next door.

 

[bodsbods9090]

Ahhh, that's why everything is closed close to work this morning.

 

[ADob]

Yup. I was surprised to see nothing on the news, even just in terms of the traffic impacts, which weren't insignificant, given they closed 103 St access to 97 Ave, and obviously a big chunk of 97 Ave. They're now down to *only* 3-4 firetrucks, as far as I can see.

 

[Airboy]

That is going to cause a few delays to the office today.

 

[ADob]

Road still closed, several fire trucks still there, smoke still billowing as of 8:35 AM.

 

[Gronk!]

First it was the Jasper Place Hotel, and now it's the Iginla Law building. Am I sensing a trend developing?

 

[ADob]

2 hospitalized after fire at empty Rossdale building

Two people were hospitalized after a fire at an empty building in central Edmonton early Monday morning.

www.ctvnews.ca

 

[ADob]

First it was the Jasper Place Hotel, and now it's the Iginla Law building. Am I sensing a trend developing?

Well, I don't know how the JP one started, but I doubt I'm going too much out on a limb to suspect that the two people taken to hospital had lit a fire inside and it got out of control.

 

[ADob]

Okay, the fire truck water boom (no clue what it's called) seems to have finished dousing the building and is retracting and the smoke is finally lessening (I actually had to bring my air purifier into my home office cause it's hard to breathe).

 

[_urbanite]

Isn't there a rezoning application for this building right now?

 

[ADob]

Well, it's now been rezoned with extreme prejudice.

 

[johnnyboy]

Road still closed, several fire trucks still there, smoke still billowing as of 8:35 AM.

Have they reopened the roads yet? You saved me an ordeal driving in to work this morning, but I heard they've reduced the east lanes down to a single lane too. Not sure which way to drive home this afternoon.

 

[policyenthusiast]

Have they reopened the roads yet? You saved me an ordeal driving in to work this morning, but I heard they've reduced the east lanes down to a single lane too. Not sure which way to drive home this afternoon.

SRC outperforming most traffic news outlets