New Zoning–Making Better Decisions

I was visiting a friend today and noticed an odd juxtaposition in the north end.  What I saw was a school adjacent to a warehouse/industrial use.

This mix of uses got me wondering how the decision was made to locate these two things beside each other. I wonder if zoning was amended to allow this.

The more we contemplate property uses as a city and community, the better future developments will be.  In that vein, I encourage everyone to look at the new zoning that is in the work for the City of Saint John:

http://www.saintjohn.ca/en/home/cityhall/developmentgrowth/communityplanning/zonesj/default.aspx

Or for a visual version of the new zoning proposals:

http://maps.saintjohn.ca/zonesj-en/

Draft - Zoning Maps

The draft zoning map is available at: http://maps.saintjohn.ca/zonesj-en/

The map allows you to compare and contrast the current and proposed zoning.

Also, you can turn off the zoning layers and just look at the high resolution orthophotography from 2012.  There are also some measuring and searching capabilities, similar to GeoNB.

As an example of the quality, here’s what the bandstand looked like from above in 2012: