[James Bay] Crystal Court Motel site | Unknown plans
#81
Posted 19 April 2007 - 02:19 PM
#82
Posted 19 April 2007 - 02:29 PM
#83
Posted 19 April 2007 - 04:33 PM
At the same time, he manages to miss every opportunity to dig critically, too. If he starts by saying that this proposal asks for a 400% density lift (in scare quotes -- why?, isn't it true?), then why doesn't he pin the traffic consultant to the wall when he insists that traffic will only increase 2-3%? I mean, people want to know. What's that figure based on? What's the 400% based on? Why bandy numbers about if they mean nothing?
#84
Posted 19 April 2007 - 04:59 PM
TRAFFIC! - it is impossible to access this site by car unless you are driving eastbound on Belleville. The current driveway access - so close to an intersection - would never be allowed now, and initial response from one of the traffic planners was along the lines of - "Now way Jose!".
Funny thing, it's impossible to access Roots unless you are driving northward along Government Street -
#85
Posted 19 April 2007 - 05:13 PM
It seems to me if I were driving to James Bay (which I may have done only once or twice in my life) I'd just as soon take Superior St.
I'm trying, but I'm having difficulty seeing how this project in particular will cause traffic anarchy.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#86
Posted 19 April 2007 - 05:25 PM
Bellville has 4 lanes each way... but....
The Douglas Bellville intersection has turning lanes which reduce the accessibility to the west end of the site...
you're not supposed to cross a double line as well....
ps: There are currently six curb cuts for access to the motel.. I'm sure that the opinion that the No Way Jose' traffic planner expressed meant that a new proposal would not get approval for several of them...
#87
Posted 19 April 2007 - 05:29 PM
#88
Posted 19 April 2007 - 05:33 PM
Have you got a new site plan?
Are they now planning to access the site from Douglas or Blanshard?
#89
Posted 19 April 2007 - 06:34 PM
#90
Posted 19 April 2007 - 07:29 PM
On the site plan the project had only two curb cuts.. which have arrows on them.... an in and and out.
One can also see the entrance to the parking garage... on the west side of the tower podium..
#92
Posted 19 April 2007 - 11:00 PM
I see that Rob Randall just posted an announcement of Westbank's upcoming presentation to the DRA on the General Discussion thread, [url=http://vibrantvictoria.ca/forum/viewtopic.php?p=24592#24592:2f9aa]here[/url:2f9aa].
It seems Randall has his fingers in every pie baked around here lately. At some point, it'll all collapse like a house of cards.
- Rob Randall likes this
#93
Posted 20 April 2007 - 12:20 PM
#94
Posted 20 April 2007 - 01:37 PM
#95
Posted 24 April 2007 - 08:37 AM
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#96
Posted 25 April 2007 - 10:03 AM
Corrections
An April 18 story about plans to build a 21-storey high-rise on the site of Crystal Court Motel contained an error regarding the comments of Queen Victoria Hotel owner Tony Hartnell.
Hartnell said a seven-storey building on the north side of his building site would block 100 per cent of his hotel’s views of the Inner Harbour.
His statement about blocking 60 per cent of the hotel’s views referred to a building on the south side of the property that was erected in 1998.
-City of Victoria website, 2009
#97
Posted 25 April 2007 - 10:32 AM
#98
Posted 07 May 2007 - 12:58 PM
The entrance and exit to the parking can be seen below the scultpture garden:
#99
Posted 07 May 2007 - 03:20 PM
#100
Posted 07 May 2007 - 03:21 PM
Aaron
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