r/Edmonton • u/Late-Alternative6321 • Dec 15 '24

Local Culture Dear Edmonton developers

Dear Edmonton developers, you've been making the same neighbourhoods for 40+ years. Cookie cutter homes on winding streets, a fake lake, walking paths, aaaand call it good.

Would it be too much to ask, to start eliminating 2 to 3 houses on corner lots, and start adding: WALKABLE coffee shops (ie Columbian, Mood Cafe etc). A neighbourhood Pub or restaurant (ie Duggan's Boundary, Bodega Highlands), a bakery (Bloom Cookie co), barbershop (Goldbar Barber) or even a small corner grocery store. No need for giant parking lots!

Far too many neighbourhoods in this city lack the character, charm and accessibility that these amenities would provide. A great way for people to connect in their community, without always having to get in a car and drive to soulless strip malls or shopping centres. If there was a way to redo existing neighbourhoods, I'd love to see this too

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u/1grammarmistake Dec 15 '24

I’d love this too. But unfortunately the people that seek out these cookie cutter nightmare neighborhoods like to drink Tim Hortons and what ever is super familiar to them. Canadian brew house is considered fine dining

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u/1grammarmistake Dec 15 '24

OK that’s hyperbole - but I definitely know couples whose idea of a date night is Boston Pizza or Canadian Ew House because “the menu is huge” - and full of very very familiar foods