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Originally Posted by Faust
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I happen to know some of the people involved in this case, and there's waaay more going here than the rather simplistic view and conclusions presented by Klaszus. It's not simply a matter of "NIMBYs don't want densification in their neighbourhood".
For example he quotes Nenshi saying, "
... we need to build density in existing neighbourhoods in order to meet those goals. And, frankly, if you can't do it here, in a place where the ARP allows for it, where are you going to do it?" The thing is the ARP
didn't allow for the development that kicked off this legal fight. The City amended the ARP
after, without the support of the Community Association, to push the development through. The ARP had three to four-storey townhouses/rowhouses in mind; the developer wanted to build a six-storey, 90ish-unit apartment building...