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Originally Posted by davequanbury
This reminds me of something a prof said during a lecture in an intro to urban geography course, "When the economy is strong, residents are more selective about what gets built in their city. When the economy is weak they are willing to let anything get built."
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This becomes a problem when you're talking about letting drive thru restaurants get built downtown, or strip malls with parking lots like this:
A highrise residential building though? I don't think that is really letting standards slide all that much IMO. If we insist on Monaco-level design standards for downtown Winnipeg residential then the surface lots will remain there until the end of time. Sometimes you have to take the bird in the hand.