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Old Posted Nov 21, 2013, 8:23 PM
Urbanarchit Urbanarchit is offline
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Originally Posted by kevinbottawa View Post
Reading the article, I'm surprised the community association isn't supporting this project. This developer seems to have bent over backwards to get the community association involved. Allowing them to choose between two final designs, being honest from the beginning at the number of floors they'd want to build, and meeting with the community before there was even a proposal and committing to their suggestions in writing. The association mentioned the height increase is to help with commercial viability, but they still won't support it. If I was a developer, this process would say to me that the play nice approach doesn't work in dealing with community associations.
Having attended many of the meetings for Hintonburg, I'm not surprised. You usually get a lot of angry people who don't want anything to happen, with many being unreasonable (and ill-informed, if I may add). Even if you give people what they want, they'll never be happy.

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