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Originally Posted by puzzles
I received the flyer as well. It seems whenever there is a redevelopment project taking place in the area it seems to be looked negatively at by most on this forum. I don't necessarily understand how anyone can support growth without actually growing? Any input would be appreciated as I'm eager to learn your perspective on this.
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I'd be interested to see what other items we've not supported on this forum. First, people on this forum are hardly a unified front. Second, we've had enough growth in the neighborhood so we don't have to accept anything that comes our way. I've heard 10 years ago any new construction was approved in the neighborhood. Now, there's SO much interest in Fishtown that we can be selective about what we want.
There's a lot of things to consider when talking about growth--whether something will be an improvement or not for the community. There are not just implications of if something "sounds cool" or not but draws on local resources, blocking of views, traffic patterns, parking, if something will be sustainable so that we aren't looking at vacant structures 10 years from now when business ideas fail (for instance, KFC in less than 5 years IMO).
Also, as I mentioned, this may be some lame effort by current property owners (who I don't know at all so this is pure conjecture) to get the property rezoned to "entice Donald Trump" or some other hairbrained idea, basically trying to make the land more profitable...perhaps so it can sit vacant for 10 years until someone buys it or has to get it rezoned...do we want that?