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Crane still here
Toronto Northeast Scarborough Community Centre | 18m | 3s | City of Toronto | Perkins&Will
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Crane still here
AlexBozikovic
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Seeing this in real life, it’s wild that it was built with such a tight footprint and awkward site plan. It’s surrounded by oceans of empty space on three sides.
When the area is built out, there will be a fire hall, rec center, two public schools and a Metrolinx facility, each with separate driveways and parking lots. What an embarrassment
When the area is built out, there will be a fire hall, rec center, two public schools and a Metrolinx facility, each with separate driveways and parking lots. What an embarrassment
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ADRM
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An excellent instalment in the Arrogance of Space series.
Northern Light
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Just to illustrate the driveway/layout issues you're discussing for everyone, this in aerial pic of the site, obviously not completely current and more driveways in the future:
Two of the existing driveways belong to Toronto EMS:
Note the orientation of the bays for the ambulances is parallel to Sheppard rather than facing. A relatively unusual configuration and it leads to have bay doors on both sides of the building, which in turn gets you two driveways.
This is distinctly poorly thought out. The orientation also leads to staff parking in 2 discrete lots on both sides of the station (a less efficient layout).
Joyce Trimmer park also has a parking lot set-in from the road, one that if you had to have such a facility could probably have been placed next to the road, and co-located with the staff parking, with spaces marked reserved as appropriate.
Overall its a lot of parking between the park and the EMS facility which does not help matters any.
