Comment 38922

By Yada Yada 6 (anonymous) | Posted March 20, 2010 at 16:30:24

1. Visibilitly to passing traffic affects the value of "naming rights."

2. William's Coffee Pub is not next door to the proposed stadium site. It is several residential blocks away. As are major public transit routes.

3. If building a stadium in the middle of a residential neighbourhood does not affect the number and type of events held in the stadium then why is the city looking for a new location? That exactly describes Ivor Wynne. If a stadium were such a strong support for nearby commercial activity, why has Barton St. E. declined over the past five decades?

4. The availability of funds to reclaim industrial sites is not a good excuse for dysfunctional reconstruction. City taxpayers and nearby residents will pay for decades for a structure that does not serve its purpose. There's little value in fixing something only to break it again. That, in a manner of speaking, is simply to replace one form of pollution with another. If it takes public money to reclaim this site before developers will build condos in this location then so be it. The developers may be privateers but the people who will live there are citizens of Hamilton and members of the public. We cannot always be looking for the cheapest short-term solution to problems without regard for long term costs.

5. What's wrong with nearby residents trying to preserve their quality of life?

6. Better to have no stadium than to construct a dysfunctional community.

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