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LETTER: History shows Oak Bay is averse to change

A recent letter (BԪַIncreased density not the answer for Oak BayBԪַ) decries Oak Bay being painted BԪַas old fashioned and anti-changeBԪַ and goes on to say that many questions are unanswered about how more densified communities are faring, post-densification.
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A recent letter (BԪַIncreased density not the answer for Oak BayBԪַ) decries Oak Bay being painted BԪַas old fashioned and anti-changeBԪַ and goes on to say that many questions are unanswered about how more densified communities are faring, post-densification.

This is an argument for more evidence-based dialogue, which is rational. How strange, then, that the letter concludes with the evidence-free, apocalyptic guarantee that BԪַif population increase estimates come close to predictionsBԪַ all of our cities and districts will be over-densified and uninhabitable.BԪַ

By contrast, ample evidence already exists for Oak Bay being anti-change BԪַ see the feverish opposition to: The Clive in its near-identical-to-former-size, the Bowker development on my own block, and the United ChurchBԪַs proposal; the latter opposed so fiercely they simply gave up.

Samuel Mercer

Oak Bay



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