A commentary by a Victoria resident with a lengthy resume of community involvement with an urban design focus.
After assuring the reader she is not a NIMBY, she plays all the rousing notes of the NIMBY anthem. Still, to her accidental credit, she offers me insight. I write as someone who has made cultural and business contributions to my city, but also as a small-time real estate developer; specifically, a greedy small-time developer.
“Greedy” is cultural code, easily applied to developers because the scale of both the projects and the business is gigantic.
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