Save Juno Beach............

[Hanno Spoelstra]

“ Canadians fighting proposed condo development at Juno Beach D-Day site”

https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/jun...ment-1.6381018

[Lang]

The museum and nearly all the comments on the article (including those who lost relatives at Juno) seem to have little problem with buildings on the site.

The dispute seems to be little more than a standard commercial problem about roads, access and disruption during construction.

Lang

[Hanno Spoelstra]

Read more here:

https://legionmagazine.com/en/2022/0...on-juno-beach/

[Ed Storey]

After reading the Legion I am even now more confused about the proposed location and wish someone would post a map to show the proposed development site. From my perspective it looks the JUNO Beach Centre is dissatisfied with the impact construction will have on their access road, whereas Clegg appears opposed to all new construction.

The concluding statement about “You don’t see condos on Omaha Beach. You don’t see condos at Dieppe. You don’t see condos at the Battle of Waterloo. Why would you have condos on Juno Beach?” is not quite accurate as the site to the north and west of the Waterloo Bute du Lion was redeveloped a few years ago - for the construction of a new museum and parking.

[rob love]

If you google Juno beach map, you will see the construction site just on the other side of the center's parking lot.

Here is a French article showing where the condo's will be: https://www.ouest-france.fr/normandi...6-49a3371759cb


There would appear to already be some smaller condos in the corner which would already use the center's access road.

[Ed Storey]

Thanks Rob. Looks to me like a 'tempest in a teapot' by the JBC.

[Alex van de Wetering]

The "Ouest-France" article that Rob linked, mentioned the condo's are to be built on the site of an old shipyard. Looking at aerial images and google earth.....and comparing it with the artist impression of the condos..... it looks like the footprint and height of the condo's are pretty much the same as the former shipyard(?)

Attached aerial pictures from 1944, 1993 and 2021......it also shows the access roads haven't changed much.