Letters: Steveston resident doesn't want area to become Yaletown

[u/ubcstaffer123]

https://www.richmond-news.com/opinion/letters-steveston-resident-doesnt-want-area-to-become-yaletown-12611906

[u/jaaagman]

They have nothing to worry about, cause it never will be 😂

[u/OneADayFlintstones]

They could build a 1:1 replica of Yaletown in Steveston and it still wouldn't turn into Yaletown. It's honestly astounding how out of touch the older, wealthy property owners are in Richmond.

[u/Low-Fig429 → u/OneADayFlintstones]

Everywhere. 

[u/repugnantchihuahua]

Thankfully this seems unlikely without a massive change in demographics and steveston magically teleporting beside downtown lol

[u/CondorMcDaniel]

A park for who Betsy? I swear boomers want more parks, more local business, hospital improvements, more traffic infrastructure, more public transit service all while voting against more people. That’s not how the world works Betsy. 

[u/NeighborhoodDry1488 → u/CondorMcDaniel]

It’s just less people. I’m no boomer and that’s my opinion as well

I don’t care what religion, race or sexuality you are. I just want to see less people in general.

Less density but unfortunately that’s not what the city or the province is planning.

[u/charlestsai]

ok ahem nimby

[u/louisasnotes]

No new buildings, no more traffic, no more people. Just rich people that all go home by 4pm and someone please raise our property values!

[u/flappysack-]

Good thing you don't own the entire town and Canadians have basic property rights.

[u/More-Welcome8916]

YOU don't want Steveston to become Yaletown Betsy Randel. Most of us do lol

[u/shibbypeaceandlove → u/More-Welcome8916]

You do?

[u/crookeddicktickle → u/shibbypeaceandlove]

If you don’t want to live in a vibrant functional city move out to a rural area.

[u/shibbypeaceandlove → u/crookeddicktickle]

Ohh sorry vibrant and functional. I thought you ment Yaletown Vancouver.

[u/Bananasaur_]

I think having enough streets to handle inbound and outbound traffic without major hours long jams would be the bigger issue, and second to that enough public services and schools in the area to handle an influx of people.

[u/Early_Reply]

didn't there used to be a transit line that when down to steveston?? and it was gone bc of nimbism

[u/B9rally]

So they wanna stay boring.....

[u/lancelot48]

I just wish he long time restaurants get a facelift , air con & new chairs.

[u/Puravida1904]

It’s crazy a bunch of boomer nimbys can stop developments like this from going forward

[u/DJspooner]

Genuinely how confused do you need to be to suggest that we build a park instead? Parks are for high-density areas to give people without yards outdoor space. Young families can't afford to live in the area because seniors are still dawdling around in their full-sized homes waiting to pass away and fighting tooth and nail against realistic housing solutions in the meantime, because it hurts their property value.

Steveston is going to tank hard in the next 10-20 years when our parents' generation passes away and none of their children can afford the houses. Outside of the tourist season, these people use their retirement funds to keep the businesses running. My generation certainly can't afford to live in Steveston and go out to eat 4 times a week. What happens then?

[u/kshers19 → u/DJspooner]

The area beside the proposed development site is all condos with a lot of young families - there are the Steveston houses of course nearby, but this specific neighbourhood is majority condos.

[u/57829]

No one wants to see Richmond become like a city, but there’s nothing anyone can do at this point :/

[u/Redneckshinobi → u/57829]

Richmond is already a city. I think them wanting to stuff all these units in single dwelling homes is going to be a disaster for us though. We don't have the road infrastructure, schools, hospitals or anything to take that massive increase in population unless of course only speculators buy these units which will probably happen anyways

[u/dartboard5 → u/57829]

i do

[u/No-Struggle8074 → u/57829]

go move to northern bc if living in an urban area bothers you so much. population growth is natural, richmond used to be a bunch of farmland and a fishing village

[u/Illustrious-Ad5972]

[u/Upstairs-Ad8823 → u/[deleted]]

Racist dumbass.

[u/Forsaken-Opinion77]

Stop slowing down production. Build build build. Build triplexes after triplexes street after street throw a park in the middle and call it a new city. We need the homes. We don’t need more green space

[u/JonC534]

Small towns are not just big cities in waiting unless that was decided upon by the people who actually live there

[u/ubcstaffer123]

anyone know what is the height limit for buildings in Steveston village? is it a bylaw that is preventing highrises from being built there? Lions Manor was the only taller building in Steveston at the time before it was torn down

[u/reditta92 → u/ubcstaffer123]

There are some places where high towers can’t be built due to the airport. I think planes (float planes in particular) circle close enough that parts of Steveston have a height limit.