The Metz (Schneiders site redevelopment)

[ijmorlan]

Two different people; the first comment was made by Karen Taylor-Harrison, a former councillor and the last comment was made by Joanne DeSouza, the current Facilitator at Mill-Courtland Community Centre.

Any no matter where you go, you'll always have NIMBY's, is the rite of passage in Kitchener.

It would be interesting to know what the people interviewed, especially the first one, actually said, in context. Calling new construction “scary” is weird, especially when the land in question will be going from providing living space for 0 people to providing living space for many more than 0 people. But at the same time, I don’t feel like I understand the person’s perspective from the couple of sentences quoted in the article, so they may well have some legitimate concerns.