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Originally Posted by manny_santos
To me it's the zoning and official plan that are the root problem. Specific to the case in London, I don't see any compelling reason why such a vast swath of land needed to be zoned commercial well south of where people actually lived. London already had a glut of commercial property and someone thought it would be great to add a huge amount of new commercial land that wasn't needed.
Once it's in the official plan and the zoning is in place, there's no stopping it.
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Comparison between London and Waterloo is interesting. Waterloo has protected its main mall pretty aggressively by kicking up a fuss every time the grocery store tries to move and restricting the types of businesses that can go into big box developments. Not sure if it has had an impact, but the mall seems to be doing better than those in London, which has had a dead mall problem for years.