Second_in_pie
Senior Member
Today, I was biking down Don Valley while pathetically trying to find the belt line bike path (I never found it) and I thought for a second, trying to imagine the area around the valley fully developed, with condos and apartments, maybe some office buildings, then I thought something: The Don Valley is never going to get developed.
People don't want it to happen. It's natural land, and should always stay that way. I agree entirely, but something should happen to it as the downtown core continues to grow. I imagine that something as an urban park; cleaning up the river, relocating the rail lines and such and putting in facilities that would be useful to the whole city. This would be maintaining some of the natural life, while also having sports fields, perhaps some small stores, bike paths galore, winter skating rinks, maybe community centers (or things that community centers have,) and easily accessible to all (probably through LRT running through the centre of the park.) It would be the ultimate place to relax throughout the whole city, and also a great node for the large developments that are probably going to be popping out on either side of the valley sometime soon.
While I imagined it as being more summer oriented, there is potential for some thing such as pretty winter skating rink squares, or swimming pools and such.
This is just a fleeting vision, but it really interested me, and I'd like to see what the wonderful people at UT think about it. Their deepest concerns, renderings of such a park, the purpose of something like this, etc. In other words, feedback. And yes, I imagine that in 20 years it will still simply be a pipe dream, but it's never bad to dream, is it?
People don't want it to happen. It's natural land, and should always stay that way. I agree entirely, but something should happen to it as the downtown core continues to grow. I imagine that something as an urban park; cleaning up the river, relocating the rail lines and such and putting in facilities that would be useful to the whole city. This would be maintaining some of the natural life, while also having sports fields, perhaps some small stores, bike paths galore, winter skating rinks, maybe community centers (or things that community centers have,) and easily accessible to all (probably through LRT running through the centre of the park.) It would be the ultimate place to relax throughout the whole city, and also a great node for the large developments that are probably going to be popping out on either side of the valley sometime soon.
While I imagined it as being more summer oriented, there is potential for some thing such as pretty winter skating rink squares, or swimming pools and such.
This is just a fleeting vision, but it really interested me, and I'd like to see what the wonderful people at UT think about it. Their deepest concerns, renderings of such a park, the purpose of something like this, etc. In other words, feedback. And yes, I imagine that in 20 years it will still simply be a pipe dream, but it's never bad to dream, is it?