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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
And yet we only complain about the heritage groups despite constant “wins” for the development community. The floor seems a little slanted, but I guess it is a pro-development forum, so not a surprise.
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There are a lot of objections to demolitions on here as well of praise of well-done privately-led heritage projects like the Green Lantern.
I think it is more nuanced than "development vs. heritage" and for what it's worth I disagree with black and white thinking in one direction or the other, whether it's people saying nothing should be built or people saying we just have to accept destruction of history because of the housing crisis. Property owners are the ones doing the bulk of the preservation. Some owners and developers are better than others. For the Robie demolitions, this owner has been doing this for years and HRM council debated Young Ave years ago, yet there wasn't an effective policy change.
A lot of it seems to come down to HRM and maybe, to the extent you agree with the buck passing, the province. HRM does obviously have control over some things like allocating money for conservation, which they don't do much.
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