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By mystoneycreek (registered) - website | Posted July 08, 2012 at 09:13:46 in reply to Comment 79211
I'm loving the fact that this discussion is unfolding. It needs to be a much broader one, but this is an excellent start.
What I hate is the conflation going on, where the idea of subsidizing a major chain has become this bugaboo, where the strength of argument of having what is a necessity in an urban, residential setting is questioned.
-People aren't interested in moving into the downtown-core because it's simply not appealing. This isn't a social decision, this is a personal lifestyle/desires decision. (Even being a modest adventurer, I don't think I'd be inclined to move there right now.)
-Why is a proposal to get a touchstone development 'desperately chasing potential development dollars'? Is that how badly we're fuckled in this city in terms of genuinely seeing things for how they are, that we're essentially so beaten-down that we get ourselves tied into knots as we're discussing the issue?
-I've never seen this whole notion of getting a supermarket downtown as having anything to do with a 'half-baked plan to entice...' and all that. I resent that on many fronts, once again we've got this 'Us vs Them' paradigm unfolding, one that has some pretty clear social issues attached (not a problem in and of itself)...ESPECIALLY when we're dealing with a Council that simply does not have the vision or the leadership or the cajones to actually face up to the the problem at hand, one that's been mouldering for a quarter-century now.
I really think we need to start looking at the bigger picture, because the one we've been going over so far is pretty limited, pretty entrenched in stuff that's simply got to be mitigated and compromises injected in order for us to get anywhere.
And I say 'we', because I believe we (the people) should be setting the tone of the discussion.
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