03-28-2022, 05:14 PM
(03-28-2022, 05:11 PM)CP42 Wrote: Correct me if I’m wrong… but Heritage Status doesn’t mean it protects a neighbourhood’s unimpeded view of the horizon does it?
In Kitchener, zoning bylaws and heritage status mean nothing
https://www.therecord.com/opinion/letter...thing.html
“I live in the Victoria Park Heritage Conservation District and we will be getting a 44-storey complex at 40 Francis St. West, and a huge complex at Park and Victoria streets (both looming on the border of our heritage district). I used to live in the Civic Centre Neighbourhood Conservation District and they are getting a 19-storey complex at 22 Weber St.. So it seems to me that the designation is meaningless.”
The opinion writer also suggests (without any proof) “that NIMBYism is being practised by the majority of councillors, who are glad this type of development is not happening next door or around the corner from them.”
I really want to understand how people feel so strongly that they fight to keep an empty parking lot and some old run-down buildings with zero heritage value, versus allowing developments to enable other humans to have a place to call home and build a more vibrant community.
People have an unlimited ability to convince themselves of anything if properly motivated.