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Wow 140+ Condos being built across from crocus! Maryland Park won’t be able to handle the influx of kids. Soon there won’t be any grass for the kids to play on, just gonna be ATCO trailers galore, already classrooms being built outside with many more in the near future. Wonder when the city will say no to the developers?

You're right. The city should definitely stop developers from developing our city and providing the city with valuable property tax income. Developed land is worth a lot more tax dollars to the city then undeveloped land

Also, the province is responsible for providing education, not the city. That's for the school division and province to sort out. It takes like 10 years to get a new school built. The city is not going to deny a development because of a (lack of) services they are not responsible for.  
 
The province dropped the ball by only building half the school. There is an expansion on the books, but the school was at capacity already the day it opened it's doors. Someone told me that that area is the densest in Brandon. It has been for years. The province knew this was probable and still only built half the school.

Yu get what you vote for.  
Why would the province pay attention to Brandon? Most of Winnipeg thinks Brandon is only about 20,000 people . Manitoba stops at the perimeter.  
We need people in provincial office that promote Brandon.

The Brandon Sun reported that Maryland Park School will be adding 14 new classrooms this year, which is in the design phase. In addition, the Province plans to build a new K-8 School in Brandon as part of it's plan to expand classrooms across the Province.  
 
Development in the City doesn't happen without careful planning. Which i:ncludes having access to schools, shopping, transit and daycares. Look at that area...there's several parks within walking distance, a daycare, a high school and an elementary school that's about to get a big addition. Can you think of a better location??

Love it.

It is called development and expansion.  
It is called controlling the price of housing.  
Grass? Are kids playing in open scrub fields? Comical….

I think there is lots of grass for kids to play on. You are forgetting, kids need housing too

As I mentioned a while ago when they chopped down all the trees- the drainage and sewer system down the line were not built to handle this amount of development. I live down First St from these developments and am sick of flooding, and panicking whenever a big storm comes. I have been told repeatedly the pipes cannot handle the water coming in! The new system costing us all millions (and higher taxes) will not be ready any time soon. There are numerous studies showing (in other cities) that these developments although touted (as many of you are doing) bring in taxes. As I said we are spending millions on water systems for this area. Good luck recouping that through condo taxes.  
The city also preaches its’ commitment to preserving wetlands yet…. Much of this land is a marsh! Some commitment.  
How about this company buy the empty lots where the Strand and Brandon Inn stood and build there!

For housing.. it suprises me where are people coming from to buy/rent these condos or even houses?  
 
City of brandon has done nothing to attract new industries or create jobs to retain our up and coming youth. Council meetings at times i find that they're discussing the same issue over and over again., feels like a waste of time.  
 
The issue of Maryland park school is the construction shouldve started this past summer and that also will be delayed. Yes they are suppose to get a pretty good upgrade of the building, however time is against the BSD.

"For housing.. it suprises me where are people coming from to buy/rent these condos or even houses? "  
 
I used to wonder that too, so I searched for answers.  
 
The short answer is that Brandon gets a fairly steady, proportional amount of immigration based on national numbers. About 5% of new immigrants to Manitoba settle in Brandon, and Manitoba gets 5% or so of all immigrants),l. Canada is accepting new immigrants at a rate not seen in a lifetime. It's roughly doubled in the past 10 years. We're on track to accept 450,000 nationally in 2023. In 2013, we accepted about 263,000.  
 
That is the main driver, there simply is more people in Canada, and a consistent small number settle in Brandon. Currently, the top countries Canada receives immigrants from are India, China, Philippines and Nigeria. That seems fairly consistent with the changing demographics.  
 
It was in the news that Westman Immigrant Services helped a very large number (record number maybe?) of immigrants last year. It's up significantly.  
 
People needs places to live!  
 
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First you have to look at what Brandon has to offer. Brandon hosts one of the world's largest privately held companies operating within its borders. In addition, it has a processing plant that employs over 2,000 people, and even a rarely found Phizer plant. In addition, Brandon boasts both a college AND a University....something usually only found in Cities twice its size.  
 
Government cannot force companies where to set up shop, and if you think that commercial for profit organizations and businesses shouldn't have to pay taxes, then who should? Because, unless you give companies big tax breaks, what else will bring them to Brandon?

well sometimes, that the problem is not so much that we do not have the land to build upon, but that there are just not enough construction trades workers to build all the homes that are needed.  
Maybe it is time to go back to pre-fabricated buildings, which with modern technology, should not present a huge problem.  
Perhaps lessons could be learned from the Rivers hotel development where I believe the units came pre plumbed and wired.  
The school system appears to have been looking to churn out more students in the technology and electronics areas, rather than the traditional construction trades.

None of this is a surprise. I have learned long ago that Manitoba is always ALWAYS reactive rather than proactive. Whether decisions about progress are made in Winnipeg or local, solutions only ever come after the fact, and problems that arise only actually become a recognized problem to those who are affected by it directly.  
Look to the future of the province, and we will see increased industry, increased trades, above average population increase, and as a result,  
higher strains on education, healthcare, safety, security, municipal infrastructure, housing, and even increases in homelessness, substance abuse and crime. But, as I stated, we won't plan accordingly for any scenario, because numbers are only predictive on a going forward basis, even though the obvious results are highy likely.  
I feel for the residents of the east end, the lack of proactive insight on the infrastructure issues will be highly problematic, and let's be honest, no one in power in the province is gutsy enough to get the Winnipeg based leadership to pump tens of MILLIONS into properly preventing what will happen with infrastructure issues.  
 
Edited by B-athome, 2023-09-07 20:51:19

We also need another high school in Brandon pronto!