It's quite a good project. My only concern is the ground-floor treatment. The proposal includes the addition of a drop-off zone of the slip lane on Macleod northbound. On the surface this makes sense, but overall it makes the pedestrian network weirder and less direct. Minor inconvenience to be sure, but one that will remain there forever. I would have preferred to shrink Macleod from 4 lanes (over-built for 22 hours a day and detrimental to the living experience of the area for all 24 hours) to 3 lanes here and give the extra lane to a drop-off zone, pedestrian bump-outs etc. Perhaps out of scope for this single developer, but the City's pro-single vehicle capacity agenda/status-quo isn't challenged here, and I would argue a booming urban residential core is exactly the place to challenge it.



The other thing that continues with this development is that weird flood-zone treatment of Victoria Park with steps up to retail. I understand the logic, but surely other flood-prone cities have found a more nuanced approach that doesn't help kill the ground floor retail vibrancy by raising it 3-5 steps above the street for a 1:100 year event? Between the negative effects of the over-built Macleod arterials and raised retail, the Victoria Park corridor will always struggle to become a major vibrant urban corridor IMO.



Minor issues aside, an excellent project and a great addition. Especially in time with the Greenline and Vic Park plans.