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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, and thats fair enough. I'm not going to get into an argument with respect to the 'Take it or Leave it' bit but, again, if two sides fundamentally start so far apart that no meaningful ground can be made to meet in the middle then again, it becomes a non-starter and it largely becomes the same thing.
If they cant meaningfully negotiate to some form of mutually beneficial common ground then it effectively does become a zero-sum game.
I see where you're coming from, it was their vision and they liked it. I have visions like that too, I'm still waiting for the Greek Navy to deliver my Aircraft-Carrier but they've inexplicably stopped taking my calls.
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Well if no one ever has a vision or a plan then nothing happens, I feel like I'm watching Finding Nemo.
So the city just said no, or at least Nenshi did. No counter at all. No real explanation other than doesn't work.
Is it that they don't want development in west village?
Don't want to deal with the Creosote issue that they took on under Bronconier?
Don't want a field house down town?
Want a smaller anchor tenant in the area?
Have a different vision that they've already got their hearts set on?
All of that would be better than the name calling we've seen, which to me has been a real sad add to this situation.
To me this has always come down to a bullet list of logic that hasn't changed.
- the football and hockey facilities are old
- it's probably a good idea to build new ones
- there are plenty of facilities that have been built in Canada with public funding
- it would be silly for the Calgary group not to ask for the same
- the city doesn't have to do what the other public funding models have done
Just keep the rhetoric out of this, it's hurting the process.