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Cranbrook’s Clock Tower Square
Letter to the Editor
Congratulations to City of Cranbrook staff and the Downtown Business Association for their great work on revitalizing Cranbrook’s Clock Tower Square!
The project was designed in 2013 with four objectives:
– Create a safer walking surface.
– Improve access for people with disabilities
– Improve visibility for the businesses fronting the Square.
– Create an attractive meeting space for residents and visitors
Three design options were presented to the Downtown business Association and we chose to go with their preferred design, which I trust is the one that the city is now implementing.
There are four bases ready for benches (as well as spaces for some additional lighting and a tree), and coincidentally there are four locations at bus stops along 14th Avenue that have two benches each. One option would be to relocate these four “extra” benches to Clock Tower Square, which would save the project some money.
Moving the benches would also create some spaces along 14th Avenue at the bus stops that could be filled in creative ways:
– Hold a 14th Avenue Art Contest and encourage our amazing local arts community to come up with public art for the spaces
– Put up small community information boards to keep residents informed
– Provide a planter box for flowers at each bus stop and invite some of the green-thumb neighbours to “adopt” a flower box and showcase their talents
– Install bicycle stands so citizens can bike and bus easily without having to ride their bikes up that challenging hill coming home!
If you haven’t been downtown recently I’d encourage you to head down and have a look at Clock Tower Square. This is another welcoming space in Cranbrook that we can all be proud of !
Wayne Stetski,
Cranbrook
