This comes from regular reader Mike F. who came across this rendering from the Border Cities Star, November 1, 1930:
Location of the proposed new Canadian National Railways station on the riverfront, at the foot of Windsor avenue, with a city hall square at the avenue’s head, is provided by Thomas Adams, city planner, in the sketch above, provided to the Windsor Council late yesterday. Originally, Mr. Adams proposed establishment of a civic centre around the present city hall park, with the railway terminal there. In view, however, of an apparent preference by the C.N.R., for a waterfront location, he suggests the Windsor avenue site, instead of at the foot of Brock street, proposed by the railway. The station, he recomends, should be raised on a steel and concrete terrace to the level of Sandwich street, with the station proper and a park-garden scheme placed above the tracks and passenger platforms. On the opposite corner of Sandwich and Windsor he would place a post office-customs building and a general purpose building of handsome design, with a street car-radial terminal at the rear of the latter. A new city hall should be on the east side of the present city hall park, fronting on it, and with Assumption street connecting with it by a vehicular arch in the middle of the hall.
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Dave.. What we need to do is light a firecracker under these absentee land owners who sit on vacant land waiting for god knows what. Anyone who ownes property with a dwelling, a commercial building or a building of any type for that matter is subsidising those who own surface parking lots or empty grassy percels.
It's not as if the city stops plowing the roads infront of those empty lots, or when the road is resurfaced, they don't pave only in front of the lots with buildings on them. So why do we give land owners tax breaks for sitting on empty land downtown?
There was an interesting article on Planetizen last week about changing the tax systenm to actually encourage development downtown, and to relieve some of the high taxes for the folks who alrady have good properties in the core.
http://www.planetizen.com/node/59647
I've heard this also called a rain tax... starting to be in place in cdn cities... i like it...
Always an interesting forum. Dave mentioned museum in his post: Does anyone know the latest on the Czimchuk (sp?) museum?
I recently saw the drawings of the new Penalty Box at the old Junction. The owners have gutted the inside of the old Dept. of Finance building next to it and are talking to the Science Centre and proposed the museum idea to the City. I don't know where they are with it but they are trying to do something and have a LOT of square footage available. Plenty of parking too. There is a proposed patio overlooking the ravine.