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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed
Houses will have to be demolished, perhaps as many as 500.
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I just went on Google Maps and counted 76 houses along 37th street. Are they saying that 6 rows of houses would have to go? That's over 200 metres wide.
Or were they counting the apartment complex right by Glenmore?
I think this is where some of the rest of us get off accusing people of being NIMBYs. We hear of 500 houses getting demolished, and kids being trotted out with signs saying "where will I play?" All designed to get people mad at the process.
Meanwhile we may be talking about under 100 houses; and by the time the project is done those kids will be more concerned about being able to afford a house that is close enough to commute home before their own kids have to go to bed.
I'm also a little jadded that in my own Copperfield I had to deal with our own NIMBYs for the SE leg; and said people didn't look at the plans before they bought their houses.