Approval of Toronto development draws fire. ⇒
15 January 2007, late morning
1500 new condo units are being added to the Queen Way West area. Maybe Shima or one of the planners can explain to me why we have the OMB?
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.
Council basically forced the developer to take it to OMB by dragging its heels on approving or denying the applications. Its a controversial case, so Miller would much prefer that a third party (the OMB) decide the outcome. It leaves him out of the political hot plate.
Where the community went wrong was in demanding too many concessions from the developer. The sneaky developer documented an unusually participatory design process. So when it got to OMB it looked like the community wanted to have its cake and eat it too.
In short, City Planning and Council basically gave tacit consent when they forced it to OMB.
by Shawn Chow on January 15 2007, 1:50 pm #
Does the OMB always side with the developer? Are there statistics on that? The OMB documents for this case are all up on Active 18’s web site.
by ramanan on January 15 2007, 2:09 pm #
My gut says yes they tend to side with developers for City of Toronto cases, but when you think province-wide. I’d be interested to see stats… maybe Tiff would know these?
The Queen West triangle has been held in limbo by City planners since the early to mid 90’s I think. Matt, correct me if I’m wrong. Didn’t Leith Moore talk about a project on the edge of this area?
By the way… Tiff, Matt and I are wondering if you’re free next weekend for Dindin. E-mail me.
[ed. Merged Shawn's two comments.]
by Shawn Chow on January 15 2007, 5:56 pm #