[thebasketballgeek]

The most ridiculous thing about all the NIMBYism is that golf courses are objectively terrible for the environment due to the high amount of maintenance and absurd water usage required to keep one running. That 40 hectares of land utilized for that golf course would serve a much better purpose as an extension to Assiniboine Forest with multi-family mixed-use housing on Grant, Shaftesbury, and Corydon if we are looking at this from a environmental sustainability perspective. Especially considering that Assiniboine Forest is already the LARGEST urban forest in North America it would be great to increase the size of what is one of our largest carbon sinks.

One of the complaints from NIMBYs was that it was high-end housing rather then affordable housing. Do they not look at themselves in the mirror and see how much their houses are worth from having that area be artificially capped in supply with only single-family housing? If they wanted affordable housing I would have loved to see the outrage if an affordable housing complex was built instead to catch them red-handed on their hypocritical outlook.