City planning
Sir, —The need for city planning to be proactive and not reactive is highlighted by the issues facing the City Council as a result of the proposed Gloucester Street tower and the singlestorey shopping complex in Cathedral Square. Reactive planning all too often is neither well considered nor does it adequately address all of the issues in a comprehensive and coherent way. Creative city planning is a three-dimensional planning and design process. Accordingly, an essential member of the planning team is a competent and experienced urban designer; a serious shortcoming in the City Council’s planning team! An imaginative and equitable city plan is achieved only by adequate, careful and considered preparation. All of the options must be identified and carefully assessed as to all of their benefits and costs. Adequate public participation is an essential element, but without adequate funding the process cannot proceed expeditiously.
The council’s planning department has always been underfunded, which is a major contributor to these present planning problems..—Yours, etc.,
GEO. W. LUCKING. July 17, 1989.
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