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There simply isn’t room downtown for every school to have a baseball diamond/track and field track
There is no reason there can't be. On new build vacant land, in public ownership, we can reserve as much as we wish to public purposes.
There's also a former school site at Parliament and Shuter sitting vacant.
The idea that there isn't room is just not true. Period, Full stop.
so scheduling may have to be a thing. Lol!
Scheduling does not fix a field that is not there.
The school day did not magically get longer.
The idea that we all have to ration land in the second largest country on earth, of which 98% has no buildings on it.........is a bit much, and then some.
Think of function in a 3D and temporal sense rather than in black and white terms.
I would argue it is you who are inflexible. You want lots of concrete and lots of towers and don't care much about the environment or physical fitness. So be it. But don't defend your preference as the only reasonable choice. I would argue it isn't reasonable at all.
Anyways most of those fields are empty 22 hours a day as well as for 6 months of our very cold year.
What? That is absolutely not true and suggests you have formed an opinion without doing any research.
There are waiting lists for sports fields across the City and teams being asked to travel an hour to play. That's entirely unreasonable.
This is the third proposal for a more nuanced integration of elementary schools in mixed use buildings so we are going to be getting a lot of opportunities to get it right!
No better time than now to get it right.
This is an evolving discussion that is just beginning and the final result will probably be somewhere in the middle.
There is no middle, there is do or do not. There either is a capacity for sport or there is not. No one is talking about a 10 acre district park.
The standard for a school yard is 3-4 acres in theory, though many schools fail to achieve this
And does UTS have a full baseball diamond?
No, and so what?
More Tokyo, less Atlanta!
I don't like Tokyo, I think its one of the ugliest cities on the planet.
There is quite a bit of agreement on this point.
I wouldn't endorse Atlanta either for a host of reasons.
I decline to choose between two poor examples.
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