I'd like to create a point of interest for my immediate neighborhood (since we have none).
The wooded area beside the park on Uplands near Country Club - Huntwood Court is owned by the Catholic School Board. One of these days that Board is going to sell or develop that land. We will lose this asset because we the residents of our area: failed to recognize the wooded area as an asset; did not protect it; did not recognize and balance the interests of all parties involved in this little corner of our future.
I thought of the following as I was walking home to Huntwood Court from the little park.
The open grassy area between the woods and Uplands Dr. is really only used as a quicker route to/from the park. If we could make that open area into a English type of square (green) and build some stores around that green, we would finally have something interesting and useful to walk to - close to and - from our homes in the area. It could look quite pretty. Maybe a coffee shop, hair salon, confectionary, small office or two, studio of some kind.
All this would fit into the area of the existing grass with maybe some 10m of forest being slicing off to build the small set of stores. To compensate, the city/NCC could add the equivalent area of land onto the woods from the Southern Corridor portion. All of us would win.
Finally then we would have a point of interest and a little less reason to spend our lives sitting at home, watching TV, and gaining weight.
| Date | Feedback |
| 22 May 2006 | Emailed Maria McRae and the HCCO. |