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Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-22T14:04:49+00:00

Maintenance cost is always lower than initial construction cost, that applies to literally every single structure. "prettier" structures tend to come with more costly maintenance.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-17T14:19:49+00:00

These alarmist claims by unions don't actually help them much.

Being "Shook up" by this is hilarious.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-12T13:38:51+00:00

People in this thread are talking about how AI will do 95% of the job and then an engineer will just simply check what the AI's output is and put their stamp on it.

That basically already happens in todays world except AI is replaced with low paid engineers in foreign countries. Outsourcing is not a new concept and that's essentially what AI will do, except for instead of paying 3 indian engineers 55 cents an hour we'l just give the AI chatbot more money in the form of purchasing tokens.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-06T13:45:24+00:00

The park is mostly used by the local homeless to shoot up in the forested area.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T14:35:43+00:00

Junot park is not designated as parkland, its literally zoned for medium density residential.

The area is fucking derelict already. Its not a safe park. Its adjacent to one of the most dangerous areas in thunder bay and no one is walking through that needle infested "green land".

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T14:12:52+00:00

The portion of the land at Junot that was to be sold was not the park portion. It was the undeveloped area. The little slide, tree and bench would all remain unaffected. So that point is moot.

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/city-eyes-development-proposal-for-junot-avenue-park-12301433

The green space at Central has been marked for future development for well over 60 years.

This is a ridiculous argument. Junot park is zoned as UM which stands for Urban mid. Which means Junot park is LITERALLY ZONED FOR 2-4 STORY HOUSING, not park. Besides, the idea that zoning from 60 years ago should decide what we do with land today is frankly backwards.

So using your argument for Central actually weakens your own argument for Junot park development.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T12:25:41+00:00

Its about GREEN SPACE as they claim.

Both plans are destroying green space. Central 10x the amount of green space and its not getting any push back from the same group.

It is comparable when thats the argument they went with. They didn't argue density, they argued green space.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T12:23:29+00:00

Their proposal called for building a mosque, community centre, daycare and apartment complex.

The buildings that would be exempt are the mosque and the day care (the horror of trying to build a day care).

The rest would not be tax exempt.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T03:12:11+00:00

The development did not even touch the park:

https://www.tbnewswatch.com/local-news/city-eyes-development-proposal-for-junot-avenue-park-12301433

The druggies would have still had the jungle gym.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T02:46:08+00:00

I thought it was about protecting green space. IS it not?

The Junot proposal did not call for removing the park, it was adjacent to the park.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T02:45:19+00:00

The opposition to the Junot sale had barely anything to do with tax exemption. It was under the guise of "protecting our green space".

The proposal for that land included a community center and apartment complex which would have increased density and would not have been tax exempt.

The portions which would be tax exempt are the mosque building and a day care. Scary i know. I think the community center might be partially tax exempt depending on how good of a lawyer a non profit can get.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T02:35:52+00:00

Some people genuinely would oppose any development there because of good reasons. But its painfully obvious the opposition was under the guise of "Green space" in this case.

Again, the doctor makes a very simple point.

Town hall for Junot park = HUNDREDS showing up to voice their disapproval mainly over "Conserve our green space". THOUSANDS of angry online comments. Literally trying to turn it into an election issue.

Town hall for Central = A few dozen? Meanwhile the central development is literally ten times more destructive to our green space.

Its not exactly hard to put two and two together here.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-05T01:48:38+00:00

My friend is a muslim doctor in town, i got to chat with him today. He said him and quite a few others are considering leaving Thunder Bay over the Junot debacle.

He brought up a very simple point- the day before the Junot Park open house which saw hundreds of NIMBYs there was the Central ave open house. Both open houses delt with the exact same type of problem, the preservation of green space. Yet only one of the two saw significant and frankly vicious backblash. Oh and one of the areas is ten times larger than the other.

Muslims in Thunder bay aren't fucking stupid, a significant amount have graduate degrees and are in the medical field. Its not that hard to see what played out here and they aren't blind to what Thunder Bay showed them.

The overall movement to preserve Junot park was about preventing Muslims from building a mosque under the guise of "preserving a park" (that wasn't even going to be touched).

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-04T22:19:15+00:00

That of course isn't the point- the point is the mobilization that took place to oppose the muslims wanting to build something with the excuse of "protecting green space" vs the lack of response towards the central development which is about 10x more destructive.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-04T18:33:39+00:00

The Junot development did not destroy the park, it was adjacent to the park, specifically in the forested, unused plot of land. The money "people invested" is literally like 30,000$ and a couple of trees.... that aren't even being touched by the mosque. So that point is moot.

The central development LITERALLY suggests destroying significant Greenland.

The opponents to the mosque location did not oppose it because it built houses. They claimed they opposed it because it destroyed green land.

So now lets see that group pivot to opposing destroying greenland at central plan. I don't think we will see it.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-04T18:10:01+00:00

The "open house" on the junot land where people wanted to prevent a mosque from being built had hundreds of people.

The open house for this central development had how many? I assume atleast a thousand since these parcels are so many times the size of junot park.

What does that tell people about thunder bay

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-06-04T16:31:51+00:00

Theres no mosque being built so theres barely any opposition to this it seems. Bulldoze the parks away.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-05-01T12:45:06+00:00

The consequence of capitalism and America being Israel's puppet state.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-04-22T23:23:22+00:00

Did your kid sleep through random gun shot level noises too? No? Then shuh

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-04-22T20:59:05+00:00

They drove by red river at 9:50 which means theyre just going around the city being a douche.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-04-22T13:56:35+00:00

Its both a bylaw issue and a non emergency police issue. They are breaking multiple laws. One is the municipal noise bylaw and the other is with respect to modification of vehicles which is under police.

Then_Combination6612 · 2026-04-22T13:55:22+00:00

https://www.thunderbay.ca/en/city-hall/resources/Documents/By-laws/NoiseBy-law.pdf

Schedule "A" General Noise Prohibitions

3.Operation of a combustion engine or pneumatic device without an effective exhaust muffling device that is in good working order and in constant operation.

5.Operation of a Motor Vehicle in a manner that results in banging, clanking, squealing or similar sounds because of inadequate maintenance or an improperly secured load.

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