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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know I will get flamed for this, but what's wrong with people wanting to live with people of equal stature, education, money etc. This is the way society has always worked, people live with whom they have something in common so that they can build a community around them. This new liberal mindset that everybody is entitled to live in the most exclusive neighborhoods is beyond crazy, I want to live next to the White House but I suppose I won't be allowed, that's how life goes.

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You can have that mindset but you can’t live like that in a city, where people of all education levels and income levels are needed to make the city run.  Anyone can feel how they want, but if you really feel like that, you need to move somewhere else.  [/quote]

Oh please, your response is naive and lame. Every city in the world has affluent areas, in the middle areas, poor areas etc. Not everyone in London can afford to live in Chelsea or it takes a certain income level to live in Manhattan.

This tired trope that in a *city* everyone should be able to live anywhere is ridiculous and crazy. Also, Teachers, First responders etc are not poor people so the talk is concentrating them in a ghetto is stupid, there are plenty of affordable areas in the city where they can live happily.

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I think what YOU are missing is that nobody is saying that “anyone” should live “anywhere.” Nobody is handing out the house next door to you.  It’s a few units in a relatively small   apartment building on a piece of government land.  The market-rate units will make up the difference and [b]the neighborhood is getting an improved community center[/b].  I don’t know many times this needs to be explained to some people. [/quote]

The bolded is not a given.  I've been reading the CC list serv and my concern is that the only party that is really going to make out well here is the developer.  CC loses its nice open green space which is necessary for a lot of reasons, the city hands over an extremely valuable parcel, the community gets maybe 15 affordable units, and the developer makes $$$.  why can't the developer buy the property at market value?  Why does the developer get it for $1?  The developer can't be happy making a reasonable profit on the project overall, they have to make an enormous one?  Why?

And why can't we get any straight answers about how many affordable units will be included, how big will they be (because we want them to actually be a nice place to live), what the new community center will look like, and how many stories this building is going to be?[/quote]

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