KingJames
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I wonder if the City has updated its Neighbourhood Plan to be current and aligned with Provincial policies
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innsertnamehere
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No. The city is just trying to enforce these old, non enforceable, plans from the mid-90’s.
KingJames
Active Member
Another fine example of local government waste. Time to put a real business focused council in place.
Chris R.
Senior Member
I don't for a moment think a "business-focused council" would result in better zoning by-laws. The most business focused members of council currently were the ones most opposed to changing the zoning throughout the city to be more permissive. And hilariously weren't paying attention when they passed sweeping parking reform not realizing they had voted yes.
The real issue is the city taking one million years to update it's zoning bylaw and staff for whatever reason continued to enforce ancient policies that are way out of date. Further, the lack of leadership to even meet Toronto's, Vancouver, Edmonton or Halifax's zoning changes is silly.
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KingJames
Active Member
If we had a council focussed on generating a stronger and more diverse tax base (ie. not hiking the existing base), including a speedy approval process, we could afford much more (pick the need). Actually I would be all for bonuses for a council that could achieve key financial growth and efficiency targets.
In the world of ChatGPT, hard to see why rewriting community and neighbourhood planning docs , is not a weekend task. Let's get on with it.
In the world of ChatGPT, hard to see why rewriting community and neighbourhood planning docs , is not a weekend task. Let's get on with it.
Chris R.
Senior Member
Oh I'm absolutely supportive of building a stronger tax base through intensification, more efficient land use, reduced infrastructure per-capita spending and relaxed building regs, in addition to attracting employment and industrial investment. I'm just not sure "business-focused" is the right way to go about it. In my experience "business-focused" typically means conservative, and in my experience, those folks are more often than not, anti-transit, anti-cycling, anti-single-detached-house, and anti-industrial development because constituents don't like any of those things.
I'm more supportive of pragmatic-focused councillors. Ones that support things that improve our city regardless of their personal views. Councillors or leaders who vote and lead based on facts or best understanding of facts.
An example is this very project. It's ugly, it's tall, and I generally don't like it. It likely contains units that are tiny and unlivable. I also think this should be approved right away.
I think a big reason our condo/apartment buildings are so bland, grey, and have such tiny units is because developers are risk adverse, because of our exact bad policy. Using higher quality materials that look better, building bigger units, and providing great ground floor amenities are all risks, and when you have to fight to build something so basic near transit and a world-class university and fight at the OLT to do so, it means you go in with something that is the lowest risk project possible. Hence this bland mess of a project.