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Originally Posted by HillStreetBlues
I hate the tone the London Free Press takes with issues like this. The opening line is "An unexpected battleground looms in city council’s push to spur more highrise development in downtown London: parking lots."...
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The push back from the parking lot owners is priceless: "leave us and our surface lots alone or jobs will be destroyed". It reminds me of this oldie but goodie:
This is the same argument used time immemorial whenever a cash cow for the privileged few is challenged to change for the greater good: our business may not be good for the greater society, but if I threaten job cuts everyone will fall into line and do as I want. Of course if such circular logic is allowed to continue then those surface lots will remain surface lots
forever. The people owning those lots and threatening the end of jobs if they don't get to keep them going indefinitely are owners who have no intention to develop them - otherwise they would have by now. They cost nothing to maintain, and the cash they produce for their owners just keeps rolling in to them year after year for no effort outside of paying the property taxes.
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