Re: this property, I'm running out of patience for the "sensitive location" stuff. If it's such an extremely delicate/sensitive location, why was a mundane little motel never an issue for all those decades? How come the mundane little hotel didn't wreak the (undefined) harm that we're all supposed to be dreading whenever somebody proposes to do something interesting on the same site? And why isn't the abandoned motel a major issue now? Surely an abandoned motel should just be oozing that terrible whatever-it-is all over Victoria's various landmark properties? And how come nobody cares about the negative impact of that craptastic bus station on the other corner? It isn't oozing, it's gushing. And it's been gushing for decades. How come nobody ever cared about the surface parking lots that dominated this ultra-sensitive district until very recently? For those who obsess about height and height only, the Hotel Grand Pacific is a fairly tall building over on the James Bay side. Has it ruined anything re: Victoria's landmark properties and transition and all of that?
I'm not just being a jerk, I'm seriously posing the question. What exactly are we supposed to be worried about? Several significant developments have occurred in the immediate vicinity in the past 20 years or so. Each one of them was supposed to ruin Victoria. None of them ruined Victoria. Crappy properties are slowly but surely being eliminated. The area is much, much nicer than it was. And yet (again) we've got a potential development that threatens to be the straw that breaks the proverbial camel's back. For such a supposedly sensitive camel, its back seems to be damn strong, I have to say.
Edited by aastra, 10 January 2015 - 01:35 PM.