{"id":294,"date":"2007-11-25T17:11:34","date_gmt":"2007-11-25T21:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingmontreal.ca\/?p=294"},"modified":"2013-01-21T11:37:13","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T16:37:13","slug":"montrealers-wants-pinepark-to-stay-as-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/montreal\/2007\/11\/25\/montrealers-wants-pinepark-to-stay-as-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Public hearing: Pine\/Park to stay as it is"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/meantux\/536694462\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1069\/536694462_aaedeb7978.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, while a handful of Spacing Montreal contributors sat in a musty church basement with hundreds of other Expozine exhibitors and visitors, about 150 people attended a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/components\/print.aspx?id=de6bf4a9-6563-4770-a6b2-80685e5d2449&#038;k=68328\">public forum on the future of the Pine\/Park interchange<\/a>. Dozens of proposals were submitted on how to deal with the newly-reclaimed space, but the verdict that emerged from yesterday&#8217;s consultation was this: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cyberpresse.ca\/article\/20071125\/CPACTUALITES\/711250498\/1019\/CPACTUALITES\">the space will not be developed<\/a>. Currently, it is zoned to allow buildings up to four stories high, but Plateau mayor Helen Fotopulos said that it will be soon be rezoned for parkland.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.cyberpresse.ca\/apps\/pbcsi.dll\/bilde?Site=CP&#038;Date=20071125&#038;Category=CPACTUALITES&#038;ArtNo=711250498&#038;Ref=AR&#038;Profile=1019&#038;MaxW=300&#038;Q=85\" width=\"275\" align=\"right\" \/>Of course, parks come in many shapes, so the discussion is far from over. The challenge, it seems, is to make sure that Pine and Park becomes a gathering space &#8212; not just the featureless afterthought, covered with cheap sod, that it is now. What kinds of things could make this very passive green space an active part of the city? There are plenty of examples to choose from. The Project for Public Spaces, a large non-profit organization based in New York, offers some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/\">solid guidelines on how to build a good park<\/a>, guided by the straightforward axiom, &#8220;Design alone does not make a park succeed. Great parks have a choice of things to do.&#8221; Check out their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pps.org\/parks_plazas_squares\/info\/parks_plazas_squares_articles\/squares_principles\">Ten Principles for Creating Successful Squares<\/a> for some ideas. <\/p>\n<p><i>Top photo by Denis-Carl Robidoux<br \/>\nBottom photo by Robert Skinner, La Presse<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, while a handful of Spacing Montreal contributors sat in a musty church basement with hundreds of other Expozine exhibitors and visitors, about 150 people attended a public forum on the future of the Pine\/Park interchange. 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