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Originally Posted by libtard
The amount of “blight” is at an all time high in Richmond with all the empty lots sitting vacant waiting to be developed.
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And that's the problem of the developers and Richmond condo buyers? Do you know how backlogged the City of Richmond's approval waiting list is? There are literally hundreds of DP applications waiting in line to be approved, with an overloaded Richmond staff not having streamlined procedures to approve many of the applications, making conflicting rules and having constant changes to all forms of designs.
Also, are we building a city for the future of this region or for the past? The blight of today will turn into the vibrant neighbourhoods of tomorrow. You have a problem with that too? Might as well keep the whole region forested and green so that the local animals will always be at ease.
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Originally Posted by svlt
Right... and the other cities in the Metro are exempt from this? Scores of condo units in towers in Vancouver, Burnaby and even Coquitlam have been scooped up by "foreign money". Canada is an open market and economy and it's just the way the country is built and run. Perhaps in the future a different elected government will change the course it's on, but given the way our neighbors to the south are treating immigrants, it's not a bad time to continue capitalizing on foreign investment and talent.
I think we do have a huge problem with unaffordability and rampant housing speculation but criticizing growth and development and an increasing supply of condos as anathema is missing the point of being on this site, I think.
Updates in Richmond deserve a thread and I for one thank the OP for collecting all this information together. I also spent many young years in Richmond and it's unrecognizable today...for the better.
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It's just racist talk: pure and simple. The world get that a lot these days.
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