Strata | 16 & 22 fl | Proposed

[jeffster]

Nimby's can very much be incredibly well off. The loudest voices against the airport are the estate owners near potential flight paths. The loudest voices against development in UpTown are those who own very nice homes in the neighbourhood associations. In Brampton, former Ontario Premier Bill Davis was one of the loudest voices against their LRT route...seeking to bend it away from the front of his large property. Marginalized voices are the ones who usually don't have the awareness, means, or connections to fight for what is best for them, and truly they are the ones most hurt by policies which make development sites so contentious, approvals so expensive, that only luxury and upmarket development can occur. The types of housing which would most benefit them, the likes of which you find northwest of the Kitchener Public Library main branch, is a type of development I can't say I've seen in the region since... well in all my time here.

If it was the similar potential programming that was the issue, they should lay off the size, parking, and other arguments. I'd be happy if we didn't see those as the crux of this design. But I have a feeling that the STEAM concern is just an opening salvo, one which, once resolved one way or the other, will be replaced by the size/parking/etc arguments we always hear.

I'm not sure if that was a response to me, but no one is saying NIMBY's aren't well off. For example, the new office building they want to build by Google, the main NIMBY is a professor at the University.

I was saying that opposition in regards from the family that donated to THEMUSEUM is not a NIMBY issue. Why, though, they are bringing up other issues is beyond me, though the parking is a valid concern. As I mentioned before, perhaps they are worried after spending all this money in Kitchener is to have both places fail because not enough support for both places.

Far as I recall too (I worked in UTW for about 20 years), there aren't any large private dwellings in that area that a couple of this caliber would be living in. Most of the houses in that area are businesses.

Perhaps it's all just tartar sauce.