21st CENTURY VANCOUVER   
      
   International rating agencies put Vancouver among the top, most desirable   
   cities to live in on the planet. The media publishes an endless stream of   
   reports about the rising prices of real estate. Current City administrators   
   project bold projects in    
   public transit. However, without being smug, all this is mundane. Who is   
   really thinking outside the box when it comes to the city?   
      
   Development Gurus have suggested a cable car system such as exists in   
   Singapore or Rio de Janeiro's cable cars over the Favelas. Others propose   
   extending the Sky Train system under Coal Harbour to North Vancouver. Still   
   others project innovative    
   development for Vancouver's False Creek area.   
      
   Once, this tidal flat was a sea of automobile scrap yards, brick factories and   
   a pickle factory. Urban renewal came and swept all these away. Has the time   
   has come for some really out of the box thinking with regards to False Creek.   
      
   It is spanned by three bridges. They were built during the same period as the   
   Georgia Street Viaduct, which has been deemed obsolete and an earthquake   
   hazard. The same could be said about the Burrard, Granville and Cambie   
   bridges. They are going to have    
   to be torn down, just like the Georgia Viaduct and replaced with earthquake   
   proof structures. What if, like the Viaduct, they were not replaced?   
      
   If the whole of the False Creek basin became a real estate development   
   project, the bridges would no longer be needed. Without going into the   
   specifics of draining and filling in False Creek, just imagine the City   
   continuing seamlessly from Coal Harbour    
   through to the Fraser River.   
      
   The City would certainly benefit. It wouldn't be faced with the costly   
   replacement of three bridges. It would acquire vast new holdings of public   
   lands that could be sold for real estate development. The City Treasury would   
   burst at the seams given the    
   value of land in this already overheated market. Think of the enormous tax   
   revenues that would come from structures built on the space now occupied by   
   False Creek.   
      
   https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzLH7OK1tjbEU2ZJV2VqcmdQYXM/view?usp=sharing   
      
   Click on this link for an instant view of the area being projected for   
   21st-century development!   
      
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   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)