COLEMAN: “Made in Stoney Creek” Solution Moves Affordable Housing to East Hamilton – TPR Hamilton | Hamilton's Civic Affairs News Site

April 1, 2024
Here’s another quirk of the great Downtown Stoney Creek parking lot debate:
The “Made in Stoney Creek” proposal to save the parking lots and instead place affordable housing in the Riverdale neighbourhood would see planned affordable housing shifted into East Hamilton.
Riverdale is in East Hamilton, not Stoney Creek.
The former Hamilton – Stoney Creek boundary runs just north of Queenston Road.
Francis would likely point out he represents both Riverdale and Downtown Stoney Creek. Both are in Ward 5.
And nothing politically turns on this.
Nobody will change their mind because of this; it is nonetheless a fact that has not been noted to this point.
The boundary between East Hamilton and Stoney Creek is one of my favourite Hamilton localisms to debate. The political boundary is clear, it runs north of Queenston Road from Centennial Parkway to just east of Gray Road.
Culturally, economically, and how people live, the boundary barely exists.
For many, Centennial Parkway is what they think of as the boundary between East Hamilton and Stoney Creek.
For those newer to Hamilton, I’ve seen them consider everything east of the Red Hill Valley Parkway to be Stoney Creek.
This is to say that while I’m pointing out the political boundary, it is no longer politically relevant.