So what about the waterfront park?
What about it? Will it add or detract from the area, will it bring people to the area thereby furnishing the downtown with a critical mass of customers, will it produce parking complaints and a whole lot of other questions. Since the whole harbourfront has been turned into a residential wasteland (what's the opposite of slums) that pleases no one, especially the people who live there and expect bucolic conditions tailored to their taste. I have no desire to visit the place and therefore what goes there is of no interest to me. But if it pleases others it will be of use but how much do I want to pay for their pleasure?
What is of interest is that whatever does go there must have the lowest maintenance costs possible - grass in the summer and plowed paths in the winter would be good. This proposal of a fountain (shades of prancing waters at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas - take a look here for a look at real fountains), is really really expensive to maintain, and proper questions have been raised about it. $86,138 is the estimate to run it for a year. Just how tasteful will the area be when it is budgeted to sell advertising $20,000) , where and how much? The idea of a bus shelter is taking some flak but if you remove it the $21,000 grant that goes with it disappears too.
So much for so little I notice that some other commentator in Cobourg on another site notes that the Park does not have a name,well it might have soon - Delanty's folly
What is of interest is that whatever does go there must have the lowest maintenance costs possible - grass in the summer and plowed paths in the winter would be good. This proposal of a fountain (shades of prancing waters at the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas - take a look here for a look at real fountains), is really really expensive to maintain, and proper questions have been raised about it. $86,138 is the estimate to run it for a year. Just how tasteful will the area be when it is budgeted to sell advertising $20,000) , where and how much? The idea of a bus shelter is taking some flak but if you remove it the $21,000 grant that goes with it disappears too.
So much for so little I notice that some other commentator in Cobourg on another site notes that the Park does not have a name,well it might have soon - Delanty's folly
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I don't quite understand the fuss about this proposal, although they will likely bung it up like always.
It almost seems like people annoyed by the already installed stupid hitching posts and sidewalk bump-outs have now realized the time to complain is before, not after these grandiose structures get built.
In that same vein, can anyone tell me what the hell that stone wall with water dripping down the front of it,located across from the liquor store, actually is? The only name they gave it seems to be "water feature". It just looks so out of place. Pointless.
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