Posted Sep 24, 2024, 1:10 PM
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Gros Méchant Loup
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Province 2, Canadian Empire
Posts: 72,949
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Originally Posted by DTcrawler
Hubley is a sneaky big NIMBY. It just doesn't come to peoples' attention very often because there aren't that many proposals in his ward. Speaking of which, don't know why they even interviewed this buffoon considering the CTC isn't in his ward, it's in Gower's ward.
But recall how much of a stink Hubley and locals raised over that modest infill dev at Maple Grove / McCurdy. Outer-Greenbelt NIMBYs are just as bad, if not worse, than urban ones, they just don't get a chance to rear their ugly heads as often.
While I feel bad for businesses who've catered to CTC-driven patronage for the past 28 years, you can't open up a business in the burbs and expect to be propped up by major events traffic to be sustainable indefinitely. Oh no, Pro Hockey Life won't be able to sell leafs jerseys when the leafs come to town! Give me a break, if you want tourists and other non-locals to visit your business, you need to be more centrally located. The burbs are meant for chain restaurants and Costcos.
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Broadly agree that a central location is most desirable for a lot of this stuff, but I'll point out that we had visitors from the Maritimes over this summer. And of the five days they spent in the capital region, a good half day was devoted to shopping at Tanger Outlets in Kanata. (Which is about 45 minutes from my house in Gatineau.)
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