Column: City of Vancouver board said no to a daycare for eight kids, after area residents mobilize to oppose it.

  • @[email protected]OP
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    111 year ago

    But when you live in a city you have to accept some level of “disturbance” (remember this is children playing, not a rock concert) from others. Following your logic, we wouldn’t be allowed to permit anything in the entire city ever again. Vancouver desperately needs new things like daycares and housing and we can’t let the loudest (and richest) residents veto their inclusion.

    Zooming out, this is 10 minutes from the downtown core of Vancouver, the region of 3 million people. You can’t expect it to be preserved in amber forever. Ultimately this will mean fewer families are allowed to live in Vancouver because childcare is so important, and that hurts the entire city.

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      remember this is children playing, not a rock concert

      Which often sounds like murder due to the blood-curdling screaming kids do these days, for fun. It’s not the happy giggling like on TV.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        I work in a childcare centre which has a capacity of about 70 children on the busiest days. It’s not that loud. And children don’t often just scream for no reason. It happens of course, but they don’t just stand around screaming at the top of their lungs. And when they do decide on screaming or there’s a dispute generally there’s an educator to sort it out. You sound really out of touch.