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Originally Posted by DoubleF
Was it a sort of generic NIMBY thing? This kinda sounds like some of the comments I heard about the SE leg of the LRT... That it would bring low income and riff raff into those communities, so move further away towards the outer communities to avoid that... etc.
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Well they were literally Post-it notes that they wanted people to put on the signs, so there's not a lot of detail to be had there. I suppose that's generic?
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Originally Posted by Fuzz
So yes, then.
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No, it's the aesthetic literally in that the artist renderings looked like massive towers that people just plain didn't like. Comments like "those look like prisons". I wouldn't say that was about poor people?
But honestly...I'm not even ashamed to say that I'm not looking forward to this. Glenmore Landing is a mess already, never mind 4 towers of people there. And yeah, crime and property values are a concern that I think anyone would have.