"LRTs displace all the poor people"?

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Interesting that Bill Ioannidis doesn't seem to think that density and intensification is a benefit to the community (say, by making every single thing the city provides less expensive to provide). Also that intensification in downtown should be driven to maintain the character and scale of established and heritage neighbourhoods, which is where the fact that 1/3 of downtown is heritage, and I'd hazard a guess that over half is heritage-adjacent, comes into serious play. Makes the 3.0FSR seem less like an accident or point of negotiation than a fixed belief that it would be hard to justify much else. Someone remind me the next time a greenfield cookie-cutter sprawl plan is questioned as to the community benefits it provides. At least Barry might seem to have some sense.