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Originally Posted by TitleRequired
Is the townhouse vs "transitional housing" just a form of a false choice?
https://www.logicalfallacies.org/false-dilemma.html
Also called false dichotomy, fallacy of bifurcation, black-or-white fallacy, the false delamma presents two alternative states as the only possibilities when more possibilities may exist.
As mentioned here, a third choice would be to renew the arena and field? |
I think the only logical fallacy here is the GIGANTIC red herring that is the Soccer Dome and Soccer Facilities inside the former Belyea Arena part of Brent’s bad proposal. If anyone truly believes Brent Harris and his “team” really envision the transitional housing to component to end in ten years, and that there wouldn’t be one attempt after another to extend the use as transitional housing, I’ve got a second Harbour Bridge to sell you.
The soccer usage, especially the dome, is just beyond stupid for smack dab in the middle of a residential neighbourhood.
But again, the even bigger bullshit is the city’s own report that claims we had at least one two many ice surfaces, and that the entire 6 acres of the property would remain not be worth around $150,000 on the open market. (A report that was presented in 2020)
https://pub-saintjohn.escribemeetings.com/filestream.ashx?DocumentId=4284
The city’s own report states that 3.5 rinks is what the city needed for its demographic footprint post 2016 demographic bottoming out. Yet, to keep in line with their report, they are going to have to shut down another rink, to keep in like with their own report, of no more than 5 rinks for a population under 90,000.
So if it costs $25,000 or million or more to build a new multiplex with two ice surfaces, I don’t really see the cost savings. It would be cheaper in the short term to reopen the Belyea Arena and get us back to 5 ice surfaces,than it would be to build a new multiplex arena.
People say the reasoning to build a multiplex is to host hockey tournaments, but a two arena multiplex wouldn’t really be that big of a draw. A 3 or 4 ice surface multiplex could be a much bigger draw, and it could be equally funded by the outlying suburbs. It could even be built right on the Saint John-Rothesay border, or the border with Grand Bay. That way we could host tournaments with the semi finals at the Q-Plex and the finals at the Lord Beaverbrook or even TD Station. The sort of set up could make Saint John a great city to host hockey tournaments for teams as far away as Boston or New York.