03-09-2021, 09:12 PM
(03-09-2021, 08:39 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(03-09-2021, 05:35 PM)Bytor Wrote: About 11 of the apartments in the subdivided houses along there that were to be demolished are considered to be affordable housing, but in Polocorp's plan they only offered to make 5 of the units as affordable.
Yes. Five isn't much, and I really would have hoped that the city would have pushed for more, at least 11 to make up for the ones that will be lost. (Note: it's unclear whether those new units would have been for sale or for rent.) But, as things went, there will be none at all.
I am still mystified how the neighbourhood character would have been impacted, when there are only half a dozen residential houses within 100m of this project. Mostly it's bounded by Queen St S (commercial), Mill St (a few residential houses, most were recently donated by the region for affordable housing) and the IHT (which has a railway and a commercial facility on its other side). Where were these concerned neighbours from?
Neighbourhood character is a word people use when they don't want to sound like they're anti-progress but are. As for where they're from, your guess is as good as mine. It's possible the half a dozen homes on Mill are quite tight nit, and it was entirely that group. It's also possible people came from further--I imagine the neighbourhood of Bruder has quite a bit of neighbourhood organization, although that neighbourhood already had a big development with polocorp, that..honestly went very well with not much opposition--mostly just on point suggestions (in fact, it's the singular example of a development I have, where community input improved the project).