| Comment | there's going to be public realm space added and building dense, central housing (with no parking, where a car park used to be, with bike racks, heated with heat pumps) is much better for the environment than any mini park would be
also bizarre to talk about "gentrification" in the Merchant City!! building market-rate housing in high-demand areas is beneficial on that front anyway because it prevents displacement of existing residents - the people who live here have to come from somewhere, and [the evidence suggests](https://cayimby.org/its-only-a-housing-market-if-you-can-move-evidence-from-helsinki/) that this has positive chain-reaction impacts on housing availability/affordability |
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