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This +1000

The only reason that the developers, the Mayor and GGW are interested in Ward 3 is because of money. They continually turn away from meaningful development in EOR that the residents have been demanding for more than a decade. The residents demands simply cannot gain traction because there is no perceived money to be made. That is the ugly truth about all of this development nonsense. Waterfront condos are stunning and they have build a vibrant community, but how about developing the same  community along the waterfront EOR. Heck, put water taxi's between the two communities. While we are at it can we build a few nice grocery stores EOR, an urgent care or two and a few basic health clinics.

This stuff is not rocket science. The Wards have been telling us for years what they need. Heck you can find a dozen WP articles talking food deserts and lack of availability to health care. Only issue is that the city council and the developers cannot figure out how to make money building it there. Instead they make tenuous arguments that if you simply built less expensive dense housing in Ward 3, they would move thre and have access to the things they wanted in their homes. [/quote]

How strange that developers want to build at a profit instead of at a loss.

Yes, I am being sarcastic.[/quote]

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