The year is 2010 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2025 and I'm reading about opposition to development on Ossington The year is 2040 and
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Councillor @diannesaxe.bsky.social would like to hear more from the neighbours “before approval”
sep 2, 2025, 8:34 pm • 6 0 • view
One of the neighbours lives a full mile away and has concerns about the garbage bins
sep 2, 2025, 8:37 pm • 12 1 • view
IIRC one of the letters is from someone who strongly asserted that they were an RPP and was weighing in as an RPP before making a number of unsubstantiated and non-Planning claims about the project certainly interesting to see.
sep 2, 2025, 8:40 pm • 3 0 • view
She really is worse than a disappointment. So much for her green credentials.
sep 2, 2025, 8:43 pm • 0 0 • view
And now you live the life of Dr. Manhattan about this issue.
sep 2, 2025, 1:27 pm • 0 0 • view
Dianne Saxe has really become the unexpected villain on council.
sep 2, 2025, 11:57 am • 11 0 • view
the 109oz debacle really was the funniest shit in the world. that one academic trying to articulate that the six-storey condo replacing an old repair shop was ACTUALLY resisting the hellfire of neoliberal global capital radicalized me so hard.
sep 2, 2025, 11:56 am • 6 0 • view
Ah, I have memories of this same academic threatening a human rights complaint against me for calling them a NIMBY online.
sep 2, 2025, 12:36 pm • 2 0 • view
They relentlessly harassed anyone who wrote about that projects.
sep 2, 2025, 5:06 pm • 2 0 • view
one of the most consistent things you see across the amalgamated city is anti-densification folks being sneering, nasty and cruel to anyone who dares to go against the status quo. conservatives in etobicoke, vaguely-leftist ossingtonians, jane jacobs-loving annexoisie. all the same behaviour.
sep 2, 2025, 5:19 pm • 3 0 • view
Always love my local neighbourhood Facebook conversations where people speaking in favor of more housing are frequently accused of working for developers (projection from people who have a financial interest in keeping a housing shortage)
sep 2, 2025, 6:31 pm • 2 0 • view
these are not serious people lol.
sep 2, 2025, 12:38 pm • 0 0 • view
I thought I may have flipped them when I sent them academic studies on filtering, but nah. They wanted to be mad and tell me the revolution was coming. 😂
sep 2, 2025, 12:41 pm • 0 0 • view
lol, this is the POWER of property ownership. it turns wannabe revolutionaries into bourgeous reactionaries when we dare to build up.
sep 2, 2025, 12:55 pm • 5 0 • view
Really confused for a second about what was controversial about something weighing just over 3kg...
sep 2, 2025, 1:01 pm • 1 0 • view
NIMBY-property tax increase for communities that opt out of '4-storey-shadow-casting-behemoths'.
sep 2, 2025, 1:12 pm • 1 0 • view
Also buildings with fewer than x people per square foot should pay higher gas and electric rates. Why are we subsidizing hydro bills for mansions?
sep 2, 2025, 1:39 pm • 1 1 • view
they must pay to keep their privilege
sep 2, 2025, 1:13 pm • 1 0 • view