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Originally Posted by Lubicon
The second picture really changes the perspective of the bridge vs. what was shown on the news, it looks much less imposing from that angle.
Two items of interest to me from that letter:
1. nobody 'owns' a view so how can it be 'stolen'? Yeah it sucks to lose yours but it's not the first time and it doesn't make these people special. How many home owners/condo owners lost their sweet view when a building went up next door or down the street? Happens all the time.
2. would be interested to see pictures of what was originally proposed vs the final design. Maybe this group could do that since they clearly remember ho much it has changed and surely someone took pictures at the open houses.
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You really want to piss someone off? Take away something they paid nothing for, yet value immensely.
That's what happened here. They had a nice view and knew it would be impacted by the project. They then believed they could live with those impacts the way that the project represented it in the renderings, open houses etc. It sounds like there was a design change from what was proposed that has them all hot and bothered.
The property value thing is a complete red herring.