Toronto Ridiculous NIMBYism thread

[bobbob911]

If there was a LRT by now, more people would be using it to get to the subway. Alternatively, it would be faster to use GO.

Warden station is near St Clair not Eglinton. The crosstown won’t feed it.

I do use GO often, it just depends if I’m heading closer to Bloor or Union.

 

[W. K. Lis]

Warden station is near St Clair not Eglinton. The crosstown won’t feed it.

I do use GO often, it just depends if I’m heading closer to Bloor or Union.

It would still draw people to feed the subway, no matter where in Scarborough they would be.

 

[picard102]

Affordable housing cut in Scarborough proposal after neighbours object

The initial proposal for 66 to 80 Dale Ave. was for 27 storeys and 116 affordable units. Now the plan is 12 storeys with 33 affordable units.

www.thestar.com

This is only emboldening those in other communities now who think parking is their birthright.

 

[ChesterCopperpot]

Mississauga residents oppose plans for six-storey seniors’ complex

The proposal calls for nearly 350 seniors’ units in Ward 8.

www.thestar.com

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Well that is a change from the cross-armed frownie pose.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Well that is a change from the cross-armed frownie pose.

Nothing like a bunch of seniors complaining about a seniors' residence.

AoD

 

[PinkLucy]

Nothing like a bunch of seniors complaining about a seniors' residence.

AoD

It's a head scratcher

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Nothing like a bunch of seniors complaining about a seniors' residence.

AoD

https://twitter.com/x/status/1204512886342729728

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1204512886342729728

No Robin Hood is coming out of this Sherwood Forest, that's for sure.

AoD

 

[W. K. Lis]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1204512886342729728

They don't want gangs of hell's grannies running around the neighbourhood.

 

[Midtown Urbanist]

Mississauga residents oppose plans for 6-storey seniors' complex

The issue: Purpose-built housing. Local impact: Residents concerned proposed development will harm their neighbourhood, but seniors housing in Mississauga is needed.

www.mississauga.com

Corrado has had a hand in building several seniors' homes in Ontario and said retirement homes have been "welcomed" into most neighbourhoods.
He said he and the sisters have been "flabbergasted" by the reaction of Sherwood Forrest residents at the meeting.
"I was genuinely surprised how nasty and venomous people were for an upscale, upper-middle-class neighbourhood like that," he said.

This case of NIMBYism seems to me to be especially egregious, even for this thread's standards. How can you rile up against nuns building seniors housing?

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

Mississauga residents oppose plans for 6-storey seniors' complex

The issue: Purpose-built housing. Local impact: Residents concerned proposed development will harm their neighbourhood, but seniors housing in Mississauga is needed.

www.mississauga.com

This case of NIMBYism seems to me to be especially egregious, even for this thread's standards. How can you rile up against nuns building seniors housing?

I can see why - Sherwood Forest is a particularly self-enclosed subdivision - and demographically akin to midtown.

AoD

 

[SunriseChampion]

Well that is a change from the cross-armed frownie pose.

It's a trap.

They want you to think they're reasonable and friendly people...but, really, they're just selfish wankers like the rest of them dirty NIMBYs.

Up in arms over a seniors residence. That's just.........some people's kids....or parents, in this case.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

This case of NIMBYism seems to me to be especially egregious, even for this thread's standards. How can you rile up against nuns building seniors housing?

Roomful of seniors complaining about seniors housing, while believing they won't be users of said type of housing one day. There is some poetic justice to be had a decade or so down the road, I'd say.

AoD

 

[W. K. Lis]

Reminds me of this short film...