The proposal for a 24-storey waterfront tower with condos, sticking like the proverbial sore thumb above the skyline, well higher than any building permitted by the town’s height bylaw, simply doesn’t fit. And, frankly, it’s big-city ugly. Boxy. Style-less. Drab. Collingwood deserves better. This is our historic waterfront, after all,
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Scripturient: Our Scruffy, Run-Down Town
There’s a gravel trail that runs along the waterfront, north of the Shipyards development, that’s been blocked by barricades since the spring. It’s been that way at least six months, perhaps longer. The path suffered erosion and some holes opened up along it. These were marked by barricades. Sort of.
Continue readingScripturient: The Sad Neglect of Collingwood’s Terminals
Whether you want to restore them or tear them down, you would probably like council to do SOMETHING about the decaying, century-old icon*on our waterfront. Anything, in fact. But as usual, council’s approach to actually doing something has been instead to do defer, delay, hire consultants, bloviate, ignore, pretend it
Continue readingPostArctica: Goose Family in Heatwave
At the river yesterday. One thing I hate about this camera is that it makes my breath sound like I am struggling. Well, maybe I am
Continue readingPostArctica: Pandemic Report #1
Might become a thing…we’ll see.
Continue readingPostArctica: A Charter Poem
A Charter Poem A charter poem slipped onto the shore where I sat daydreaming about you it came from a flooded place back up the river and seemed happy to be on solid ground again landfilled ground containing the detritus that caused the flood upstream
Continue readingPostArctica: River High, Shore Erosion In Verdun
The Saint Lawrence has been much higher than usual this spring in Verdun. Today I walked between the Natatorium and the Marina and there were parts of the lower path already washed out. My first concern is that many trees along the shoreline have already leaned into the river and
Continue readingPostArctica: The Dance Floor
Took these last week. During the summer in the evening this place is usually packed with dancers but not on November afternoons.
Continue readingPostArctica: Still Life With Pasta #16
At the river today…
Continue readingPostArctica: Autumn Pictures
5 from today in the rain.
Continue readingPostArctica: At The River Today
Not much ice left out there, just this weird strip of chunks floating along next to the shore. You could hear it tinkling, like chimes.
Continue readingPostArctica: December 26, 2015
Beautiful day, about 7 above, still no snow, but we are expecting freezing rain and snow in the next 48 hours so all these scenes will change. Long shadows are […]
Continue readingPostArctica: Verdun Waterfront (East Side)
Took a stroll along the waterfront a few weeks ago. The beach is going to be built behind the Auditorium so I though that would be a good starting point. As you can see there is not much room immediately down from the Auditorium. The view looking east. At the
Continue readingScripturient: Strat Plan Part 3: The Waterfront
The waterfront. It defines us geographically, historically and culturally. What could be more important to Collingwood than its waterfront that covers the entire northern border of this sleepy, lakeside town? Well, pretty much anything else it seems, if you you’re on Collingwood Council. Pick the most irrelevant, pointless, self-aggrandizing effort
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