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Comments by James O'Grady
I voted: YesThe rebate I received was a nice bonus.
On this issue we agree. Housing is not just about numbers, it’s also about neighborhoods and communities, families and children. Canada’s single family home communities are the safest communities in the province and the best place to raise a family. Using infill projects to build affordable four-plexes in single family home communities is not the right approach to growing smartly because it can undermine the existing community in so many different ways: socio-economic, planning, traffic, parking, education, demographic/psychographic, etc.
While affordable housing is needed, why destroy our best communities to raise a family, and the urban forest in the process (a subject near and dear to me), just to do so? No, we don’t want urban sprawl either. I don’t believe it’s one or the other. We have so many contaminated properties in our cities—here’s a chance to build housing while also cleaning contaminated land, and creating a new community in the process. We could also convert business parks in the same way, of which we have too many anyway. The oil and gas depot off of Merivale Rd. just south of Huntclub should be moved anyway. Ottawa has grown past it. There’s a large space that could easily by cleaned so a new community can built on top of it.
I would not constrict the types of homes that can be built because you want to let the planners make the most of their opportunity. Just restrict where it can happen. Look at cleaning contaminated land first.
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Very interesting. Almost all say no because "it's their land". The women appear to be the most ardent. Pretty much makes it impossible to live together in peace if one side or even both sides refuse to live with one another. The core of their position seems to have been formed around the force used to displace them and the disrespect shown to Palestinians by Israel settlers.
Thoughts?