08-23-2017, 07:30 AM
I found this article about the demolition of one of Terry Good's former houses on George Street in Mary-Allen very interesting. I live adjacent to this neighbourhood and have a lot of friends there, and find it a bit of a hotbed* for people who expect the neighbourhood to stay static and won't accept any kind of change or development.
Some of the quotes were interesting to me, as is the fact of the article. I know that "Many residents happy to see unmaintained house torn down for new development" is not a headline newspapers tend to print, but I have to imagine that would be equally as true as the headline they did print. I also take exception to the term "heritage advocates." Is a person a "heritage advocate" just because he or she wants the existing (all existing) preserved in his own neighbourhood?
*I'm sure, like most neighbourhoods, there is a good mixture between anti-development types and those willing to accept that neighbourhoods inevitably change...but Mary-Allen really often seems to skew towards the former more than most.
Some of the quotes were interesting to me, as is the fact of the article. I know that "Many residents happy to see unmaintained house torn down for new development" is not a headline newspapers tend to print, but I have to imagine that would be equally as true as the headline they did print. I also take exception to the term "heritage advocates." Is a person a "heritage advocate" just because he or she wants the existing (all existing) preserved in his own neighbourhood?
*I'm sure, like most neighbourhoods, there is a good mixture between anti-development types and those willing to accept that neighbourhoods inevitably change...but Mary-Allen really often seems to skew towards the former more than most.