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Douglas Todd: Vancouver’s downtown waterfront could use an adventurous rethink. Not another oversized tower

Opinion: Greater Toronto is in the midst of a visionary recreation of its downtown waterfront. How about Vancouver?

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It costs $11.50 to park your car for half-an-hour on this small, uninviting slab of pavement on downtown Vancouver’s waterfront.

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But hosting a few dozen parking spots is, to say the least, a waste of this ultra-prime piece of property, located east of the historic Waterfront SkyTrain Station and north of Simon Fraser University’s Harbour Centre campus.

This spot could be the entrance way to a spectacular new downtown waterfront, with stunning views of the North Shore Mountains, that would welcome the people of Vancouver and beyond, advocates say.

If only city councillors had more vision — and perhaps took their cue from Toronto’s imaginative rehabilitation of its waterfront.

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