Temporary fire hall was planned for green space at Gore and Union streets
The call from Strathcona residents to have a chunk of green space in their neighbourhood given formal designation as a park got another step closer after Vancouver council directed staff to report back on the best way to achieve that goal.
“The ask here is to have staff report back on considerations for how we could actually assign this as a park so that it is protected and that it's no longer just a vacant right-of-way that could be subsumed at any whim,” said Fry, a Strathcona resident. Fry noted Strathcona was identified in a recent independent report that assessed Vancouver’s tree canopy cover as the most tree-deficit neighbourhood in the city.
“This isn't just in a neighbourhood with a deficit of green space, this is also in a neighbourhood that is changing, and there's going to be lots of demand for spaces of respite for the community,” Meiszner said. “Many people in this neighbourhood live in the smallest of apartments, in or in social housing and co-ops at very high density, even directly adjacent to this space,” she said.She said Strathcona needs welcoming, flexible, community-oriented spaces for gathering residents.“If you go by it on hot days, there's people lying under the trees. At lunchtime, there's workers breaking on the few benches that are available. And at all times, there's people walking their dogs.
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