Comment 62030

By Mr. Meister (anonymous) | Posted April 10, 2011 at 13:25:59 in reply to Comment 62006

Nonsense. I am stating the facts as they are. Not how I wish them to be or how they should be.

No fear. I never said that I am afraid or that you should be either. What is there to be afraid of. If anything you are the one who uses those tactics especially in all those peak oil/end of the our civilization pieces you have written.

No uncertainty. I am quite certain about my facts. You on the other hand deal in uncertainty all the time. You hope and think that good things will happen if only we do what you think is best for all of us.

No doubt. What is there to doubt? All you have to do is open your eyes and see. The differences between our cities and those of Europe are huge and no amount of wishful thinking is going to change that, you may not like it but that does not make it so.

I never said that the population of Hamilton is equally distributed. I do not believe anyone did. Why would they?

Hamilton has pockets of fairly dense population but only pockets. We have miles and miles of (kilometers and kilometers?) of single family homes. No matter how narrow the lot or how close to the road they are single family homes is low density. The opportunity for increasing the density has been there for a long time and most citizens just do not want it. Does your vote trump theirs? How many of theirs?

Nor did I ever say we do not have a livable city without pushing people into boxes. We have livable city now. Many thousands of us are happy with the city. You keep trying to foist these huge changes upon us that for most of us just do not make any sense. I said for your vision of the future that is what we would have to do. The vast majority of Europeans live in a box in a big building. So much of their housing is made up of 3 to 6 story walkups. On the East side of Queen street just south of Main St. there is a small complex or building that is 3 or 4 stories tall. Imagine miles (or kilometers) of that kind of building. That is how The vast majority of Europeans live. Is that really what you envision for Hamilton? Without them or some equivalent how can you ever match their density?

Do you see any irony in the fact that you have your own single family home (I understand it is older and tall and narrow and set close to the road)and you wish to implement all these changes so others cannot? One set of right and wrong for you and another set for the rest of us.

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