07-26-2017, 12:50 PM
(07-26-2017, 12:34 PM)DHLawrence Wrote: My thoughts re: displaced businesses: not everybody can afford to move. For them, closing is the only option. For some the cost is going to be bigger than others, especially the aforementioned lumber yard. Won't be the only one; Gillies Lumber will have to move to accommodate the eventual LRT route - they get all their deliveries by rail but their siding is going to be cut off. And that is a big site.
The question becomes, should there be a moving assistance program for businesses that have to relocate? Especially local businesses.
If they are forced to move this might be the case, but I think the original position was more of when they get priced out of the area, then moving costs are not an issue because selling their property will fund a move very easily (the whole point being to move to more suitable, probably much cheaper land). Unless they're leasing, and then I don't know.