Blue and White Army Posted March 8, 2006 Share Posted March 8, 2006 Vancouver Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium - Talkshow Debate The Bill Good Show - Wednesday 8 March 2006 CKNW News Talk 980 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) MPEG Layer-3 26 kBit/s, 8,000 Hz, Mono Total size: 4.14 MB Total running time: 30:23 Host - Christy Clark (former Minister of Education, former Minister of Children and Family Development and former Deputy Premier of British Columbia) Guests: John Rocha - President, Vancouver Whitecaps FC Trish French - Planner, City of Vancouver Leonor Sally - Executive Director, Gastown Business Improvement Association Stephanie Smith - Advocate, Downtown Eastside Residents' Association HTTP download Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Blue and White Army Vancouver Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium - Talkshow Debate The Bill Good Show - Wednesday 8 March 2006 CKNW News Talk 980 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) MPEG Layer-3 26 kBit/s, 8,000 Hz, Mono Total size: 4.14 MB Total running time: 30:23 Host - Christy Clark (former Minister of Education, former Minister of Children and Family Development and former Deputy Premier of British Columbia) Guests: John Rocha - President, Vancouver Whitecaps FC Trish French - Planner, City of Vancouver Leonor Sally - Executive Director, Gastown Business Improvement Association Stephanie Smith - Advocate, Downtown Eastside Residents' Association HTTP download Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium website Thanks for that, quite boring in fact, few concrete details, tons of dumb planning process truisms. But fortunately no real hard opposition to the project, so I am optimistic. Perhaps now they need to step up the proposal a bit and be more ambitious with it, since I think they can get away with a lot more (height, capacity, structural elements) than they have shyly put into the first proposal. Was that Bill Ault who called in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-Man Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Blue and White Army Vancouver Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium - Talkshow Debate The Bill Good Show - Wednesday 8 March 2006 CKNW News Talk 980 (Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada) MPEG Layer-3 26 kBit/s, 8,000 Hz, Mono Total size: 4.14 MB Total running time: 30:23 Host - Christy Clark (former Minister of Education, former Minister of Children and Family Development and former Deputy Premier of British Columbia) Guests: John Rocha - President, Vancouver Whitecaps FC Trish French - Planner, City of Vancouver Leonor Sally - Executive Director, Gastown Business Improvement Association Stephanie Smith - Advocate, Downtown Eastside Residents' Association HTTP download Whitecaps Waterfront Stadium website a stadium with a roof. Well done BC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 This is not known as the wet coast for no reason. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 The virtue of the design is to scrupulously NOT block too many views (though when you are in a building on Water Street you normally don't consider the front line of the docks your "view"), and not affect any residential area too much as in fact the "local" residents are quite far away mostly, and would not be affected by people flows as the people will go to where the commerce and service streets already are. That kills the two typical planning caveats. Another thing is to talk about the real virtues of the building as a stadium but since everything is reduced to planning simplicities we have basic design and soccer design down the list and not even considered as important. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vancouversoccerman Posted March 9, 2006 Share Posted March 9, 2006 Was that Bill Ault who called in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 Somebody at CKNW had done their research Bill, to select you for the one caller they put on the air :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calgary Boomer Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 The downtown east side welfare collectors met last night on the project. They yattered on about how affordable housing should be a priority, not soccer stadiums. What a bunch of bulls**t! They don't seem to get that not only is this a 100% privately funded project, but that there's nothing else you really can build over some railway tracks. They're not going to put low income housing on the Coal Harbour waterfront. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jeffery S. Posted March 10, 2006 Share Posted March 10, 2006 quote:Originally posted by Vancouversoccerman Was that Bill Ault who called in? Nope...it was me. I got the luck of the draw and mine was the only phone call. At least we can say there was 100% support from callers on the show :-). Cheers, Bill Currie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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