The third picture shows the development projected onto a wider picture of the city. You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building.
I do agree though that NIMBY's will generally whine regardless of the person doing the building. I wouldn't say "[all] the critics of the project are racist" because I don't know all the criticisms, but certainly some of the criticisms in the article had a pretty racist slant to them.
> You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building.
That's kind of the entire point of Vancouver NIMBYism, at least around Kits/Point Grey. The "backyard" for them is basically "anywhere except the downtown peninsula" (the other side of the inlet in the picture).
They won't care too much if someone builds a 20-40 story building on the West End/peninsula. Do the same thing on the west side ([1], off the peninsula) and they'll throw an absolute fit.
[1] The West End neighbourhood and the colloquial west side are a solid 10-20 minutes apart from each other, driving time. Geographically - West End is on the peninsula, and the west side is basically the various neighbourhoods across the inlet (False Creek) from it.
The third picture shows the development projected onto a wider picture of the city. You can see plenty of other skyscapers, some looking similar height or nearly as tall. Just not any on the side of the river the Squamish are planning on building.
I do agree though that NIMBY's will generally whine regardless of the person doing the building. I wouldn't say "[all] the critics of the project are racist" because I don't know all the criticisms, but certainly some of the criticisms in the article had a pretty racist slant to them.