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Originally Posted by rocketphish
Proposed high-rise for Montreal Road has some residents fearing gentrification
By Jennifer McIntosh, Ottawa East News
Nov 11, 2016
“It has to be right,” he said, adding you lose the sense of community in a high rise. “Once you’re on the sixth floor, you might as well be in New Delhi,” he said.
Other residents expressed concern about the capacity of the bus route 12 which is the nearest to the development.
Drouin, who wants to open up shop in Vanier, said there needs to be a vision for the east end neighbourhood. He said developments like the one proposed would gentrify Vanier and turn it into another Hintonburg or Mechanicsville.
“I could show you pawn shops and crack houses,” steps from that building,” he said.
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My sarcastic comments are based on the ridiculous points I picked out above.
1. So I'm hearing that a high-rise will be bad because of all the people coming to the neighborhood causing traffic issues, but additional community will also will take away from the community because the current super-dirty hotel and back-alley behind the gas station is more of a community builder than being holed-up in a condo? I believe permanent residents going back-and-forth from their condos will be MUCH better than johns going back and forth from their hotel rooms and the associated back-alley with bushes behind the hotel.
2. Uhunaiu should be proud of this one.
3. Let me see if I can break this down. Drouin wants to open a shop on Montreal Road, steps from the development. But he is...against? gentrification of the neighbourhood? “I could show you pawn shops and crack houses, steps from that building,” he said. Does this mean he is...for?...crack houses and pawn shops? Is this the type of shop he's trying to open???
I know from experience that Montreal Road has a pretty awesome vibe which is unique to the city, and I can understand how residents would like to protect that. When I think awesome vibe, I'm thinking the Montreal smoked meat deli counter, the bingo hall, the strange 220 Volt Depot, the Wabano Centre, and the Vanier Grill, rather than the crack pipes and pawn shops that this guy is talking about. Any 'gentrification' will be good for these community pillars and encourage more like it.
Overall I also disagree with concerns around additional traffic. It's unfortunate that car traffic coming out of this mini-community will be turning all over the place, mostly turning right and doing u-turns. Thinking about routing around the intersection, driveways, and side streets will be an exercise, but just takes a little effort. A five-lane road meeting a six-lane road is really not an issue for 550 more residents. If we're concerned about traffic, we need to talk about every licence plate on the Vanier Parkway is from Quebec. In addition, the bus routes in the area need to be strengthened, but we all knew that.
Build it!
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