07-13-2015, 04:20 PM
(07-13-2015, 02:14 PM)BuildingScout Wrote: The irony is that because of those NIMBYs blocking the natural growth of downtown the whole thing collapsed into the current urban blight that Kitchener has spent so much of the last decade trying to revert. Their opposition lead to much larger loses than if they had allowed rezoning and sold their two storey houses to developers at higher densities.
I can't think of too many Downtown projects that were blocked by NIMBY pushback. I think maybe the apartment on Queen St near Mill came out a couple of storeys shorter than originally proposed. There was the successful resistance to the widening of Victoria St between Park and Belmont. Other than that, I can't think of any examples.