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Originally Posted by Bring_Back_Shantz

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

Creepy accurate. Did you see www.stopthetowers.ca