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Originally Posted by Keith P.
The "Schmidtville" protectors - which as I said years ago here is largely a creation of property owners in the area and not anything historically factual - need to limit their hegemony to their little colony bounded by Morris, Brenton, Clyde and Queen Sts. They can knock themselves out adding Victorian gingerbread and "authentic" colors to their little stick-built structures, listen to the CBC, eat finger sandwiches and petit fours, and sip tea. Let the rest fo the city grow up around them.
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Translation: Let's give carte blanche to the developers to do whatever they want, because after all we should feel lucky that they are willing to invest their precious dollars in Halifax. We need more glass boxes because anybody who wants to preserve built heritage must be some kind of... zealot? Well, you know -
those kind of people...
