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Originally Posted by jt-mtl
OMG, drive on Du Plateau from Vanier to Grives, it is all residential and schools! Again, anytime commercial areas are planned, NIMBYs come out full force to fight it. Face it, Ottawa/Gatineau is a car-centric city as much as they want to deny, this is at least a good first step to create some central place for all the residential folks to go to. Before COVID, Cage aux Sports was a central place for folks to go to, let's hope they have something planned like that in Destination V.
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I think you are misusing the term NIMBY. Those of us critiquing this proposal are not opposed to development, we are opposed to continuing with more car centric development of this variety. I have yet to hear anything that separates this from the misguided big box around a parking lot style development that has been going on for 30 years. Throwing a few apartment buildings at the back of a parking lot does not make it mixed use.
I get that the area needs more retail and restaurants. That doesn't mean that this is the right way to build them.
You keep saying that this is a good first step. What exactly is it a good first step towards? I don't see any possibility for this to develop into anything better without a complete redesign.
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