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Originally Posted by Slava
Some of those are legitimate concerns though? I don't think it's peculiar that people don't want another tower put up in their neighbourhood, regardless of the infrastructure issues, which is pointed out here...
If this development was row-housing and the like, I think that the opposition to the project would be significantly less. Wo would live in a row house backing on to 14th Ave? Whole other discussion.
Haha, 400m is like 5 minutes for most people. That's just not a big deal to walk 5 minutes to a bus stop.
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As someone on the Planning Committee of my community association, in an inner city neighborhood , I can tell you this is not the case.
Pretty much no matter what is being proposed you can count on the majority of the comments on it to be one of the following:
1) This will ruin the character of the neighborhood
2) This will mean more renters/single people/lower income people, which will mean more crime, this is a family neighborhood and we should keep it that way
3) If you let them build this, all of the people parking on the street will mean I won't be able to park on the street
4) It's blue/too new looking/has too many windows, so I don't like it
Also, most of them will start with "I have no problem with densification, but"
Trust me, no matter the project, people will come up with what they think is a creative ways to make it sound like it isn't just 100% NIMBYism