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@Tom Coumaris

I think that's slicing the salami a little thing. Very few average citizens are actively and of their own initiative FOR some conceptual project or development, unless you stretch the definition so widely that it turns almost everyone into a NIMBY (I am vehemently in favor of having indoor plumbing and a sewage system, but I do not want Blue Plains in my back yard, and I suspect DAlpert doesn't either).

By the same token, however, average citizens are rarely AGAINST conceptual projects or developments either. I suspect one would be hard pressed to find, even in the most McMansion-y quarters of Kent and the Palisades, folks who are generally opposed to apartment buildings writ large, or to the very idea of mixed use buildings. In my experience, most of the folks who live in these areas are actually quite fond of places like Manhattan and Paris, and have no objection to them being the way they are. They just don't want this type of urban form in their backyard.

by Dizzyactively on May 25, 2012 11:53 pm • link • report

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