"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
07/02/2014 at 15:50 • Filed to: None
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"thebigbossyboss" (thebigbossyboss)
07/02/2014 at 15:50 • Filed to: None | 1
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There is one neighbourhood around here which has....let's say a history of NIMBY-ism.
If you don't know what NIMBY-ism it means "not in my backyard-ism". In otherwords, they hate all progress.
Here is what they had to say about a recent application for a sidewalk patio:
"Allowing a restaurant patio on a Glebe side street would encourage spying on neighbours, increase the potential for drunk driving and put patrons at risk if parked cars malfunction, councillors heard Wednesday."
A) What is a parked car "malfunction?" You mean, when the driver hits the gas instead of the brake?
B) Increase the potential for drunk driving?
(Pre text: Don't ever ever drive drunk, nothing said in here condones drunk driving).
What does this mean? There is already unlimited potential for drunk driving in the world. Physical impairments from the task of drunk driving do not stop people from driving drunk. Common sense does. Drinking beer and getting the vehicle are not opportunity limited.
C) Spying on neighbours? Are you that self absorbed that you think everyone on the patio is spying on you? Is that all you got?
Goodness.
Pictured: Parked car malfunction
mr_gofast
> thebigbossyboss
07/02/2014 at 15:53 |
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mr_gofast
> thebigbossyboss
07/02/2014 at 15:54 |
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wait this is in the Glebe?? where? fourth ave?
Lumpy44, Proprietor Of Fine Gif
> thebigbossyboss
07/02/2014 at 15:55 |
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The next town over has a ton of them basically all summer and people love em! Sit out in the fresh air, talk to people you know going by, increases business for the establishements. Yes someone has bumped one with a truck but still not a big deal.
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thebigbossyboss
> mr_gofast
07/02/2014 at 16:05 |
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Glebe ave. Bout four blocks North of 4th.
ttyymmnn
> thebigbossyboss
07/02/2014 at 16:07 |
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I have nothing against sidewalk patio cafés, but I gotta say, sticking one in the street is kind of silly. It takes up parking, and I would worry about some drunk asshole crashing into it. I don't think I would want to sit in it.
I'm not sure this is necessarily a case of NIMBY, though. That would be more like, "I am all in favor of affordable housing for the poor, but I don't want it built in my neighborhood. Build it in somebody else's neighborhood." As for the stated objections to the patio, they are spurious and laughable.
BTW, there is a Glebe Road in Arlington, VA. True story.
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thebigbossyboss
> ttyymmnn
07/02/2014 at 16:08 |
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Oh...the patio would be on the sidewalk of the side street. It won't actually be on the pavement of the street.
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ttyymmnn
> thebigbossyboss
07/02/2014 at 16:28 |
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Gotcha. The linked article showed a patio arrangement off the curb, in the street.