[nightstreak]

The City has been looking everywhere for a spot for an outdoor pool (and and indoor one) for the south Downtown/waterfront community.

A big pool (or pools) likely Olympic in size whether as one pool or two, takes a lot of land area.

They didn't previously consider Rees a viable option, in part due to the intrusion of Toronto Water and Enwave.

To the extent these are no longer an issue, I can see the idea. For the record, I disagree.

I would not be opposed to an aquatic centre with its back to Queens Quay and a hill or terraced steps leading to the aquatic centre's roof. This would in effect block the Gardiner like the winning competition did and deliver water play to the waterfront. I wouldn't mind seeing an outdoor water feature for warmer months, but an indoor pool at least provides year round use.

I just don't think a park in the shadow of the Gardiner is a great idea.

To be nitpicky, this park will be in the "shadow of the Gardiner" exactly 0 days a year. The Gardiner is north of the park and in the northern hemisphere, the sun is always in the east > south > west.

 

[bcmc]

I would not be opposed to an aquatic centre with its back to Queens Quay and a hill or terraced steps leading to the aquatic centre's roof. This would in effect block the Gardiner like the winning competition did and deliver water play to the waterfront. I wouldn't mind seeing an outdoor water feature for warmer months, but an indoor pool at least provides year round use.



To be nitpicky, this park will be in the "shadow of the Gardiner" exactly 0 days a year. The Gardiner is north of the park and in the northern hemisphere, the sun is always in the east > south > west.

The sun will be north of the gardiner for some of the year

 

[rdaner]

I wonder if the undefined podium space of a few of the proposals for The Portlands would be suitable?

 

[nightstreak]

I wonder if the undefined podium space of a few of the proposals for The Portlands would be suitable?

Maybe in 20 years. It's easy to overlook that the Portlands development will take 20-30 years to fully play out.

The central waterfront has no aquatic facilities for those living there today, unless you live in CityPlace and have access to those amenities—many don't. The fact that a pool was left out of Canoe Landing Park was such a huge lack of foresight.

Scroll back a couple of pages and I was upset with the cancellation of this park. Now, I'm increasingly elated knowing that the opportunity to rethink the park to include much needed aquatic facilities in the central waterfront are now being planned. This can both be an aquatic complex and a park of the same size as had been approved, but now more dynamic and better frequented as it won't just be a park but will have regular foot traffic from those coming and going to the facility year round.

 

[TossYourJacket]

Putting it in the Portlands would also require us to build transit from the Central Waterfront to the Portlands, which this City has failed to do over and over and over again. We can almost certainly build an aquatic centre here faster than we will build the Waterfront East streetcar (sadly). Also why not have an aquatic centre here for the Central/Western Waterfront, and then one out there for the Eastern Waterfront. The more the better!