67-71 Nelson Ave | 23 SFH | Proposed

[Chris]

From the Record article

Plan to build 23 homes on small lots in Kitchener sparks concerns over traffic, density
Developer sees opportunity for ‘gentle intensification’ of Bridgeport East site

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fww...nsity.html

[Chris]

Current view of the area under proposal.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/67+Nel...80.4657432

[ac3r]

It's almost like they had a neighbourhood meeting and just blindly pulled strips of paper out of a hat marked "Generic NIMBY Complaints".

Chief among the concerns is increased traffic and insufficient parking

Well, given the size of the proposal, it's more likely that any residents would just not own cars!

Residents worry that a new, denser cluster of homes would change the neighbourhood’s character

What character? It's already the same thing...low rise houses.

residents have also said “low-income housing” will create safety issues and crime, Pinnell reported.

Annnnnd there we go, everybody's favourite flawed, classist NIMBY logic: some people with little money commit crime, therefore, all people with little money must be criminals. Assholes.

Addressing a resident’s concern that existing property values will drop

Improvements in neighbourhoods generally don't lower property values. Especially when proposals include connecting city roads to each other, building multi-use trails, building soundwalls so you don't hear the industrial businesses as much. None of these people even bother to think critically here, they just go NIMBY mode.

“That’s obviously got to be compatible, so we are looking at that through the review of this application.”

Grow a spine and tell these people they're wrong, Andrew Pinnell.

Overall, these are the most generic complaints they could have come up with. What a load of nonsense.

[ijmorlan]

It's almost like they had a neighbourhood meeting and just blindly pulled strips of paper out of a hat marked "Generic NIMBY Complaints".

[…]

Grow a spine and tell these people they're wrong, Andrew Pinnell.

Overall, these are the most generic complaints they could have come up with. What a load of nonsense.

Wow, those complaints really show a level of chutzpah. Complaining about excessive density from a few bungalows in a neighbourhood of bungalows?

[dtkvictim]

It's almost like they had a neighbourhood meeting and just blindly pulled strips of paper out of a hat marked "Generic NIMBY Complaints".

Chief among the concerns is increased traffic and insufficient parking

Well, given the size of the proposal, it's more likely that any residents would just not own cars!

Residents worry that a new, denser cluster of homes would change the neighbourhood’s character

What character? It's already the same thing...low rise houses.

residents have also said “low-income housing” will create safety issues and crime, Pinnell reported.

Annnnnd there we go, everybody's favourite flawed, classist NIMBY logic: some people with little money commit crime, therefore, all people with little money must be criminals. Assholes.

Addressing a resident’s concern that existing property values will drop

Improvements in neighbourhoods generally don't lower property values. Especially when proposals include connecting city roads to each other, building multi-use trails, building soundwalls so you don't hear the industrial businesses as much. None of these people even bother to think critically here, they just go NIMBY mode.

“That’s obviously got to be compatible, so we are looking at that through the review of this application.”

Grow a spine and tell these people they're wrong, Andrew Pinnell.

Overall, these are the most generic complaints they could have come up with. What a load of nonsense.

Traffic (car issues in general), crime, safety, and character are all valid things for residents of a neighbourhood to worry about - even if the concerns are almost completely baseless in this situation.

But we really need to flip the script on concerns about property values; it should not and can not be a valid argument. It's just not a sustainable situation, and this expectation has helped create the situation the West is in today. Unfortunately, it's probably the one concern here that the residents actually care about the most.

[ac3r]

It's almost like they had a neighbourhood meeting and just blindly pulled strips of paper out of a hat marked "Generic NIMBY Complaints".

[…]

Grow a spine and tell these people they're wrong, Andrew Pinnell.

Overall, these are the most generic complaints they could have come up with. What a load of nonsense.

Wow, those complaints really show a level of chutzpah. Complaining about excessive density from a few bungalows in a neighbourhood of bungalows?

And it's not even that dense. Below is a random new single family home neighbourhood in Waterloo Region (near Fairway Road I think...can't remember). The lots are around 30 feet wide as well. This is pretty standard these days. Like sure the lots are smaller but how would this even impact the current residents? Looks like each property is planned to have parking so that should suffice. It's not like this is going to attract someone with 5 cars.

[neonjoe]

Some of the neighbourhood currently backs onto industrial, thats the character I want my neighbourhood to have. More housing will buffer the existing industrial even better.

[bravado]

Who do these people think is going to staff their retirement homes? Where will they live? Selfish idiots.

[jeffster]

From the Record article

Plan to build 23 homes on small lots in Kitchener sparks concerns over traffic, density
Developer sees opportunity for ‘gentle intensification’ of Bridgeport East site

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fww...nsity.html

Oh boy! Can't wait to hear from the NIMBY's once they catch wind of this! The TRAFFIC! It'll just be like Lake Shore in Toronto have a concert+Jays game! Violence! Small homes harbour 10's of thousands of criminals! IT WILL DESTROY THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD! Schools will become overcrowded!

Won't someone think of the children?!

[ijmorlan]

From the Record article

Plan to build 23 homes on small lots in Kitchener sparks concerns over traffic, density
Developer sees opportunity for ‘gentle intensification’ of Bridgeport East site

https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fww...nsity.html

Oh boy! Can't wait to hear from the NIMBY's once they catch wind of this! The TRAFFIC! It'll just be like Lake Shore in Toronto have a concert+Jays game! Violence! Small homes harbour 10's of thousands of criminals! IT WILL DESTROY THE CHARACTER OF THE NEIGHBOURHOOD! Schools will become overcrowded!

Won't someone think of the children?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jFqhjaGh30

10,000s of criminals