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Originally Posted by First Lady
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DCU is a moron. Anyone who finds himself/herself agreeing with DCU should probably re-evaluate his/her positions.
Nenshi is asking Ungar to stick to facts. If he doesn't, he has to apologize. Seems fair to me. If it was an honest mistake, perhaps a retraction would be sufficient. For deliberate misrepresentation, an apology seems to be in order. The apology prevents Ungar from mispresenting facts when it suits him to a greater extent than a retraction would.
DCU doesn't understand the facts at all.
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Originally Posted by Slava
At times I probably come across as being against densification (I'm not entirely). I just get tired of the holier than attitude of some of the people pressing for this, and specifically those who rent rather than own and are ideologues on this topic largely due to their current stage of life.
I also better note that I don't even mean that comment to specifically apply to CP as I've run into some of the people at various times and places. I should also note that I'm not makig the rent v. own distinction as a comment about whether people owning should mean they have greater say either; its just that renting a 500 sq. foot apartment in the beltline and saying "we can densify" as compared to someone who actually owns and pays taxes is a night and day scenario IMO.
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An inner city renter (particularly if renting an apartment - which must be profitable, and not a condo) is paying more than his fair share of taxes (through rent), whereas someone who owns in the burbs is being subsidized. (Now please print an apology before you may return to this conversation
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Originally Posted by Titan
I did a search and if I sold my house, I could only afford a townhome in Lakeview.
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A pro-densification agenda would decrease the cost spread between Lakeview and McKenzie, thus reducing the economic penalty you'd incur from living in a location where neither of you would have to commute (and thus you'd be putting less stress on the city's infrastructure, costing the city less in the long run).
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Originally Posted by Stay Golden
Wait till you see what Nenshi does with taxes too.
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You have to realize that taxes today reflect on the development policies of previous mayors. If we screw it up today, there will be long-term costs (e.g. snow removal, road maintenance, circuitous bus routes), just as we are paying today for the mistakes of the past. Long-term, Nenshi's policies should reduce overall tax rates, but it will take several years for the changes to make their way through the system and outweigh the momentum we have going against us. It's like the ozone hole - we've stopped using CFCs, but ozone won't reach 1980 levels until about 2060. You probably won't have to wait 50 years for taxes to go down, but it's the same principle.