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Originally Posted by Foxy
They pressured Lillydale to move and failed miserably.
Lillydale isn't the problem in Ramsay as I see it. Where do you draw the line? Are you going to get rid of the concrete plant? What about the contaminated land at the old Shell building, adjacent to the tracks on 11 St? What about the train tracks? Should we tear down the old Calgary Brewery?
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None of those things make a stench so holy it can melt the hairs inside your nose.
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Ramsay was a district where people lived where they worked, and had been long neglected by the city. Now that the yuppies and that sort have discovered that there are some cool older homes in that area, suddenly these businesses that have been there since the beginning are getting the squeeze. I didn't see anyone trying to close down the Burns plant when it was still operating, complete with feedlot and rendering all those years ago. Now that Ramsay can be considered trendy, we don't want those businesses in our back yard.
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Judging from the amount of shuttered buildings and unused land there, I'd say it hasn't been an area where people live where they work for quite a while.
I used to work in Inglewood. I didn't really appreciate the drug deals going down behind our building and the crack head hookers stumbling around the front. And the time someone decided to poop by our front door.
If it takes a poultry rendering plant moving to improve living and working conditions down there, then very well.