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wyliepoon
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If you haven't found out over at SSP, miketoronto and I took a drive around the Town of Pickering. (You can check out Mike's photos in the SSP photo section)
What's the first thing you think of when I mention the Pickering waterfront? The nuclear power plant? Perhaps the new wind turbine? Those were the only things I knew about the Pickering waterfront until I drove to the foot of Liverpool Road. Here, almost in the shadow of the nuclear plant and the wind turbine, is a pretty decent stretch of waterfront. There's a nice park on Front Road facing Frenchman's Bay (an inlet of Lake Ontario.
At the foot of Liverpool Road is the Great Lakes Nautical Village, a New Urbanist nautical-themed community with a well-used (for a suburban location) mixed use strip on Liverpool Road. Where Liverpool Road meets the lake is Millennium Square and a beachfront park which appears to be quite popular with the locals (even though the nuclear plant looms over the other end of the beach). Kids were playing in the playground and wading in the lake, without fear of water and/or radioactive pollution.
(I apologize for the odd photo sizes and the way they look... my Photobucket account is acting up again)
Park overlooking Frenchman's Bay
Homes on Annland St.
Looking south on Liverpool Road
Entering the Nautical Village
Street parking on Liverpool Road
Residential units on Liverpool Road...
... and a storefront on Liverpool Road
Look at the mix of uses
Millennium Square
Rules of the park
What's the first thing you think of when I mention the Pickering waterfront? The nuclear power plant? Perhaps the new wind turbine? Those were the only things I knew about the Pickering waterfront until I drove to the foot of Liverpool Road. Here, almost in the shadow of the nuclear plant and the wind turbine, is a pretty decent stretch of waterfront. There's a nice park on Front Road facing Frenchman's Bay (an inlet of Lake Ontario.
At the foot of Liverpool Road is the Great Lakes Nautical Village, a New Urbanist nautical-themed community with a well-used (for a suburban location) mixed use strip on Liverpool Road. Where Liverpool Road meets the lake is Millennium Square and a beachfront park which appears to be quite popular with the locals (even though the nuclear plant looms over the other end of the beach). Kids were playing in the playground and wading in the lake, without fear of water and/or radioactive pollution.
(I apologize for the odd photo sizes and the way they look... my Photobucket account is acting up again)
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Park overlooking Frenchman's Bay
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Homes on Annland St.
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Looking south on Liverpool Road
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Entering the Nautical Village
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Street parking on Liverpool Road
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Residential units on Liverpool Road...
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... and a storefront on Liverpool Road
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Look at the mix of uses
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Millennium Square
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Rules of the park