Take the police station and firehall as examples.  At its current location, a case could be made that ithe police station is ideally situated and its frontal facade is ideal.  To merely state that both buildings are not adequately earthquake-proofed ignores the simple question of what would it take to get them upgraded in a manner that is occuring at schools, for example.  Some are advocating a re-organization of police forces in which case a brand new station may become partly redundant.

 

As for the proposed new museum/arts centre a strong case can be made that it is needed (though not to promote contemporary artists and certainly not to display photos with captions like "woman with dog circa 1913").  But North Vancouver, which has way more history is in the same situation.  To me a single North Shore entity would make much more common sense and would have the enhanced prospect of attracting visitors from elsewhere.  Has there been any exploration of this idea?