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  1. A bold idea for Lakeview> The Forks and the Distillery would not be my first choices for projects to emulate.

  2. I commend the citizens who came forward and are trying to show vision and a desire to make their community better.It is important that we can do something special where this plant once stood. Lets get more input and ideas.Hey maybe this is where Millers stingray petting aquarium can go.

  3. The one thing that’s missing from the presentation – where do the industries currently occupying those lands go?

    It’s great to say – oh build a stadium, build an aquarium, don’t build a powerstation, relocate those icky industries… basically what that means is the residents of Nanticoke will have the closure of the coal plant put off again, and the industries will close and the jobs and property taxes lost – and who is going to pay for these civic wonders in Hazelsauga?

    Bring us all of the plan, not just the fluffy cuddly bits.

  4. I agre that the things they listed for a redevelopment of the area are extremely frill-y, I think it’s more of an idea of what can be done with the land. Getting such large tracts of Waterfront space isn’t the norm in any urban area. To be fair though, the majority of land in the proposed Lakeview site is either the outdoor coal storage area, where the plant stood, or the parking lot for the actual thing. The hydro corridor has not seen any use in three years, and the current parkland is disjointed, with the exception of Lakefront Promenade.

    A large number of the “industry” in the area is mostly just retail and services that can be incorportated into a new development w/o any problem- a Tim Hortons, Banquet Hall, two fruit stores, vet, window store, blinds store, door store- basically just retail places that wanted to have space for storage and parking. Other things like medical packaging, a manufacturer of seats, and a large number of warehouses could probably find more space in something like the industrial park along Queensway, or the huge amount of empty industrial space sitting in Etoicoke.

    Lakeview differs in a lot of way from Nanticoke in the sense that Lakeview was built in a community, where as Nanticoke is having the community built around it. And remember that in Mississauga the residential tax base “subsidizes” the industrail and commerical tax base (as opposed to Toronto), so having more residential space would be a benefit to the overall tax base.

  5. Trent – I guess my point is that power should be produced as close to point of consumption as possible but not only has Toronto closed every substantial generator (the PEC is the first reversal of this trend) but now the bordering municipalities seem to be taking the same view.

    What this means is that not just Nanticoke but other municipalities like Claringdon will bear the impacts of the power to light up the aquarium or the ballpark. It’s not just about power – it’s about things like shipping our garbage to London and our organic waste to Quebec. We need to contain our impacts within the area of origin because it’s the surest way of persuading people to lessen them.

    As for the proposal to send the warehouses to the Queensway – wanna bet the Queensway residents want to send theirs to Mississauga?

  6. Power Generation should be handled by those “in the know”.There are too many wannabe engineers who dont’understand how power is generated and how it is really utilised.Low energy power sources like solar and wind need to be close to the load. Whereas High power sources can be located further away.However it seems most authorities want to use the existing lines such as those near the defunct power plant to put in another source of generation.If wind towers are built there it makes sense if gas generators are installed it doesn’t.Let’s just make the site people friendly.