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Originally Posted by Harley613
I don't know Plouffe Park. This whole thread I was assuming it was some kind of urban oasis in the middle of Little Italy. I just checked on google maps....this whole situation is about a couple of downtrodden soccer fields?!?? How many of the NIMBYs in the neighbourhood even use those fields? People usually travel around the city to play. This is ridiculous. 'Don't take away something we don't use for ten years so that we can get some of the best sports and recreation facilities in the city in our neighbourhood, we want to see people playing soccer as we walk by! wahhhhh!!! BANANA!'
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I find this kind of comment to be equally extreme to the NIMBY comments. I think we established that the park is used, and how exactly is it “downtrodden”?
Anyone supporting intensification should also be supporting amenities like neighbourhood parks. Otherwise intensification doesn’t work. I don’t know that this is actually going to be out of commission for 7 years, but if so that is too long for a neighbourhood that is going to have several thousand new residents