Bruce Wark reports at Warktimes.com on the goings on in the Town Hall meetings... here:
Big building could be coming to downtown Sackville | (warktimes.com)
Some commentary on the article reproduced here below:
"So, another Lafford project in the works.
Why not just rename Tantramar to Laffordville?
And why bother going to the town with plans? They’ll roll over as always and it won’t matter what anyone in town says to oppose it. It’s pretty much a done deal now.
He proved it the last building when he told everyone it was going up regardless of community concerns.
Bugger the heritage of the town, bugger anyone who opposes and if you think this will bring people to the area? Sure, all the people who have great income to afford things, bugger the people in town who can’t afford housing, or will be even more put back by this."
"I laughed out loud when Lori Bickford said “vibrant” when referring to that big new 7 story apartment building towering over the landscape like a monolithic but necessary and apparently welcome build [they tell us all that we need more housing and we’re going to get it but its not built to be beautiful or elegant is it?]. By removing those three older heritage style architecture a little bit of specialness dies again here and change is the only thing you can count on these days.. and regret for what was a lovely quaint charming landscape being ambitiously transformed by the strong although baffling desire for “densification”. The word densification is about packing people in on top of each other like sardines… is it really necessary in a place with so much land and room to move? Lafford Legacy = densification in the town. I only wish he would put his considerable talents into building neighbourhoods of beautiful single family homes – and they don’t have to be large – but more new attractive homes for sale would be preferrable to this current “chicken coop” contribution. “You’ll own nothing and you’ll be happy” – World Economic Forum. Lafford is completely inline with ‘sustainanable development’ smartgrowth pack and stack housing that the United Nations crowd promote and we are all about the United Nations’ ideologies here – we even fly a UN flag here. Lafford is a very wealthy man who could stop and retire comfortably tomorrow if he wanted to but he seems compelled to continue building more unattractive housing. Pity. The name “Laffordville” might just be appropriate Elaine.. you’re not wrong."
What is "smartgrowth" why is it promoted here?
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