As someone who actually has skin in the game and own a property that is in direct view of the Chumir, all I am going to say is that I did not oppose the SIS being in the Chumir. I did however feel it was frustrating to be brushed off when certain concerns started mounting and I am really damn frustrated in how the local community has been treated since the opening of the SIS. I don't know about the violence worries, but property damage and trespassing are very real things. Then, there's the worries that it would snowball from there.
The surrounding community essentially accepted the SIS with open arms, but once certain things transpired and a request (generally reasonably requests too) to tweak a few things for harmony for the community and SIS were straight up rejected, I think more and more people in the community are straight up angry with the way the SIS has been handled.
I'm not going to defend my opinion more than that. It's not a hill I'm going to die on. I've put in other comments earlier in this thread, it really hasn't changed much. Call me a NIMBY, I don't care. But this is something actively happening right now, not something that hasn't happened yet and a few vocal individuals are trying to railroad it.
The SIS is necessary. I get that. There was going to be a change, I and others in the area get that. But being made to feel like we're bad people because we wanted a way to co-exist in a more harmonious manner with the SIS is complete BS (a little more police presence, a solution to try and reduce the litter in the area etc.). That's probably why there are a ton of people who supported the SIS at first straight up want it gone from the Chumir. It's far less about the SIS itself than the annoyance of the lack of help and straight up ignoring of the voices from the surrounding community from the Province/City/CPS.
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