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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
OK, from the pic, it appears that he is a little older. He's a professor, does that make him wealthy? Does his financial status matter?
But really, I don't understand how his views would be considered NIMBY. He seems to have concerns about the loss of history and character of the entire city. Could you explain how this is NIMBY? Not questioning your views, but I really want to understand.
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First of all, his background:
http://www.smu.ca/research/profiles/faculty/Haiven98.html
We can dig into the salaries if they are public but I assure you he wasn't making minimum wage throughout his career. It is not hard to assume that he is an upper-middle class citizen.
Second, taking his background into consideration and the fact that he is the chair of the Schmidtville Stakeholder Steering Committee suggests that he is either living in Schmidtville or in the South End. We all know about the Schmidtville crowd right? It also takes some sort of financial maturity for people to make time to engage in projects like that. NIMBYism is not cheap.
Third, the fact that the developments he is shitting on are/were ALMOST all empty lots, mostly parking lots which were levelled decades ago like it was mentioned above. The only point I agree with him is the Elmswood building.
Let's go one by one:
The Cunard: Parking lot
The Vic: "which replaced the gorgeous old Victoria Hotel at Morris and Hollis, victim of demolition-by-neglect)" (his words). This is the gorgeous hotel he is talking about
:
https://www.google.ca/maps/@44.6419621,-...Fl1YCPW1Q7TY0H5tDddrA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656
The Roy: Probably one of the best buildings in that area. Bricks were falling off of it before the project.
The Alexander: Vacant Lot
The Mary Ann and The Margaretta: Parking Lot / Vacant Lot
"shamelessly sit on a part of Schmidtville that has been levelled." He is almost talking like it was levelled couple months ago to make way for these projects.
Robie and Quinpool Tower: A very ugly and outdated office building with a crumbling multilevel parking lot behind it.
Queen’s Marque: Parking Lot
Apart from his criticism, he doesn't give us any clue about what he would envision instead of those projects since almost all of them were empty lots.
If this is not NIMBYism, honestly I don't know what is. I hope I could explain my point of view
