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Originally Posted by VancouverOfTheFuture
Vancouver has a higher concentration of homeless, drug addicts, and general scofflaws. these are the same people who break the glass blocks in the side walks, break parking meters, and go general damage to others properties for no other reason then "why not."
with a higher concentration of these types, you get more property/petty crime. in Vancouver, we just cant have nice things; that is just a fact of the type of people who are here.
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They do it for several reasons like prevent vandalism and damage from storms but a big one is energy efficiency, stained glass windows slowly sag as the lead 'came' deforms from the weight of the window above and slowly opens up many small holes throughout the pane where solder fails.
I used to work in The Dick Building from the late 20's at the corner of Granville and Broadway, the stained glass windows in the stairwell were in poor shape and badly distorted at the bottom, ready to collapse but Colliers didn't care to fix them. On a windy day you could feel serious air flow in the stairwell.
https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs/33-stained-leaded-glass.htm#deterioration