Dan Fumano: How a Vancouver neighbourhood fought, and defeated, a daycare
Dan Fumano: How a Vancouver neighbourhood fought, and defeated, a daycare
Column: City of Vancouver board said no to a daycare for eight kids, after area residents mobilize to oppose it.
NIMBY at its worst.
Daycare is expensive and often doesn’t have capacity, yet they won’t allow a harmless solution in their neighbourhood.
To everyone complaining about cars, 8 cars over 30-60 minutes every morning and afternoon is nothing.
If you design your neighborhoods so that people can use bicycles or walk safely, then you won't even have to worry about cars anymore
There's a daycare where parents are picking up kids in the afternoon.
You say 6-8 cars are no big deal, but you forget that - for these parents at least - NONE OF THEM CAN DRIVE. Even one will crush any through-traffic for like 20 minutes as they jostle about and try to park 2 feet from the door, come hell or high water. Park around the corner and walk 70m? HELL NO!
It's a gong show. I try to catch it every afternoon if I can, as I want to see Mother vs Mother in the Motherdome.
No. Wait. I have a better pun.
MATERNALLLLL COMMMMBAT !! Ready? FIGHT!
To my surprise, by the end of the article I was against the daycare too
Genuinely curious: why?
Side note, I like your username!
I agreed with their complaint that this sets a precedent that would allow people to start all kinds of businesses from their homes that would disrupt the entire neighborhood. I don’t know why the people got so angry about it though.
Also, 16 kids getting dropped off/picked up by their parents at the same time of day crowding the road, 16 kids playing outside and screaming two hours a day, I wouldn’t want to live next to that. I can choose not to live next to a park or a playground, I can’t control if my neighbor decides to turn their home into a playground.
so what they fought was a home-based business that could be disruptive and obstructive to the area.
Saying 'but it was a daycare' is an appeal to emotion, right? I want to make sure I have the right name.
so what they fought was a home-based business that could be disruptive and obstructive to the area.
This logic could apply to any business, anywhere in the city and forms the basis for NIMBYism. Does this mean we shouldn't build anything anywhere in Vancouver again?
