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Originally Posted by Vin
I did say previously that the City has a huge backlog of development permits waiting to be approved. There is no point blaming builders, developers and condo buyers for that. The lot you mentioned is highly visible from the skytrain, and I do agree the visual impact is pretty huge, but what other areas are a "blight" besides that one? A lot of the structures that were torn down were ugly low-density single-storey buildings sitting on huge parking lots in the first place, so to take the initial step to redevelop these buildings is a good thing.
I also did mention that we are building the city for the future, and without all the developments going on now, we will have worse housing affordability problems than what we are experiencing now.
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The vacant lot across from city hall, the huge vacant lot across from Richmond centre, the numerous vacant lots around the 3 road/Sea island way area. The list goes on. I'm not blaming developers or buyers. You mentioned that Richmond has gotten rid of blight in an earlier post and I'm merely pointing out that Richmond has more blight now then ever before.