06-02-2021, 08:55 PM
(06-02-2021, 07:43 PM)jeffster Wrote: I kind of stopped reading when she was saying something about mid-town Manhattan being dropping in DTK. Obviously, she's never been to Manhattan. This little building would be dwarfed by everything around it. Bottom line, DKT is growing. This - is - good. It's why we spent $1B for an LRT. We're getting rid of a parking lot, hardly used, and building a nice looking condo. Victoria Park is busy? This is a GOOD problem. It wasn't that long ago that people avoided that place. We WANT a busy park. We want a busy DTK. This is what we want. We don't get there by stopping/slowing progress.
We can either do this, or we can accelerate growth in the outskirts. Start merging the smaller communities just outside the city. Perhaps that's a better option. We can build a ring highway around the outskirts to accommodate traffic. That's the alternative.
Luisa D'Amato never has anything good to say about this city in anything she writes and Debbie Chapman, despite being a local politician, always seems to take this pseudo-progressive attitude where she says she wants development, but then has loads of criticism to offer anything that is proposed.
I'll be curious to see how the response to this project was from the meeting this evening. I was watching for a short time, but gave up after a while since most of it was just stuff I already know about the project and companies involved. And I'm sure the community speakers were typical: "this is too big, we shouldn't become Toronto 2.0, what about parking/traffic, it's too big, traffic, too big, traffic, Toronto, traffic, progress is destroying Waterloo Region and we must stop it all." with perhaps one or two voices voicing approval.
I'm pretty confident this will get built due to the sheer scale of this...it'll provide a lot of jobs and homes, but as we've witnessed over the last year, all it takes is a few dedicated NIMBYs to rally together and stop something in its tracks. However, I think it's unlikely because there have been so many large projects approved recently. It's not that much taller than Duke Tower or the proposed 38 and 44 floor buildings at Station Park, which nobody seems to have a problem with.