There’s a certain amount of eeriness I found in reading this column in The Tyee on Friday as it was not just a day or two prior where I was discussing the peculiarities of said neighborhood with my girlfriend. I’d remarked to her how I found it odd that one section of the seawall, the downtown side, was littered with sky high condo towers, while the other, False Creek South, was not. It baffled me why the city wasn’t exploring the possibilities of False Creek South as it clearly had with downtown. Friday’s Tyee op-ed by Daniela Elza answered many of my initial queries and then some, and with that, I find myself partly agreeing with her plea but also frustrated with her myopic view of how cities function. Here’s a bit of what she had to say.
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