Comment 55226

By Shempatolla (registered) - website | Posted January 08, 2011 at 15:32:47

@ arms length

I understand what you're saying. I think I'm just coming at it from a different point of view. To my mind by building up, instead of out you actually make the waterfront and environs with their views more inclusive instead of less. Say for instance you have 3 or 4, 12-20 story condos along Stuart or Barton. Each with say 60 units facing the water. That's 180 "homes" with a water front view all within a relatively narrow scope of frontage. Now multiply that down the length of that stretch of street. There is no way you would get that many single family or town homes along a similar or even greater length of frontage. To my mind this makes the water front much more inclusive and eliminates the possibility of fostering the kind of NIMBYism that could result from unintentionally building a community that comes to see itself as exclusive.

Comment edited by Shempatolla on 2011-01-08 15:33:19

Cheers

Greg Galante

Hamilton

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