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Originally Posted by OldDartmouthMark
I give up. I was starting to think we were getting smarter than that, but nothing has changed.
No foresight around here at all. Somebody flashes some cash and everybody bows down - and our "regulations" are designed to facilitate that.
Heritage District - what a joske. It's pathetic, really.
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I feel your discouragement. I was down around there today, and in just a handful of blocks you've got the Dennis, Westwood's big block-bust on Spring Garden, and this. (Plus a bunch of smaller but still serviceable and character-filled buildings at needless risk). You'd struggle to find a comparably large collection of endangered historic architecture, in such a concentrated area, anywhere in the country. I really don't know what to chalk it up to.
Every city loses a great old building now and then, but it feels like Halifax developers in particular really don't see the value in these structures. Some do, but enough don't that it's making a negative impact on the city's built landscape. And Haligonians, by and large, tend to assume that's just how development is supposed to work, and we should be grateful for any development at all, and not bother pressing for better.
It's strange.