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by zavi 2613 days ago
They are complaining about Google's proposal to expand light rail in surrounding areas, arguing that the residential land is so precious there and shouldn't be disrupted. Sounds like NIMBY activism.
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Nope, you got it all wrong. It wasn’t the idea of Google to build light rail. It was the city’s idea and has been discussed for many years. The problem is that the city lacks funding so google might have been asked to contribute in exchange to all the benefits they get from this Neighborhood.

There is also no residential land right now at this spot. It’s potential residential land that would need to be built, that’s the whole point of the neighborhood but right now it’s the old land of the port, there isn’t any residents.

I’m not sure if you are misleading on purpose or not, but you have twisted reality entirely on this one.

The filed complaint is talking about the area outside the port that would be "affected" by the light rail.