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Originally Posted by LRTfan
the whole 'fits in with the neighbouring buildings' is a load of nonsense. If that was our guideline for development then nothing would ever get built. Literally nothing.
A cul-de-sac of 2.5 storey homes with 3 car garages doesn't fit with the farmland next door.
The Pigott Building didn't fit with all the low rise buildings in the city when it was built.
The steel mills and their 30 storey smokestacks didn't fit with a grassy harbour shore.
City Hall as a modern, space-age looking building didn't fit in the old Victorian downtown
Hambly House in Westdale didn't fit one bit amongst the modest brick bungalows next door
The list is endless....this is how cities grow. How on earth Hamilton ended up with an anti-business, anti-common sense city hall is beyond me, considering we've been one of the most depressed cities in Canada for decades. We need to start growing again. We're 4 decades behind.
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OMG, loved this comment, absoluetly so true