{"id":1553,"date":"2007-05-09T10:19:42","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:19:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/05\/09\/resident-wants-last-fallsview-look-at-cataract-preserved\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T10:19:42","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T14:19:42","slug":"resident-wants-last-fallsview-look-at-cataract-preserved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/05\/09\/resident-wants-last-fallsview-look-at-cataract-preserved\/","title":{"rendered":"Resident wants last Fallsview look at cataract preserved"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?724\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A city resident wants the last remaining view of Niagara Falls from the Fallsview area protected against development through a heritage designation.<\/p>\n<p>Bernadette Secco made a presentation to council asking them to start the process leading towards a historical designation for the pedestrian deck, located beside the former Loretto Academy in the Fallsview area. She said the tiny piece of land needs to be preserved as a place residents and tourists can see and listen to the falls.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the Niagara Falls experience and this is why tourists and residents come to Niagara Falls and Fallsview,&#8221; said Secco. &#8220;You don&#8217;t get the same experience at Table Rock (where it is often misty) or the viewing deck at the Fallsview Casino where the trees get in the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The land is currently owned by Niagara 21st Group, owners of the Marriott, who asked city hall in September to release it from a pedestrian deck agreement in place since 1991. The pact, which restricts use of the land and air rights to only allow a pedestrian deck on the land, originated in the early 1960s.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: A city resident wants the last remaining view of Niagara Falls from the Fallsview area protected against development through a heritage designation. Bernadette Secco made a presentation to council asking them to start the process leading towards a historical designation for the pedestrian deck, located beside the former Loretto Academy in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}