Toronto Union Park | 303.33m | 71s | Oxford Properties | Hariri Pontarini

why do they do this every time. it starts off amazing then next thing you know they down grade the designs and it ends up half as good at the original design. probably some idiot at city hall all thought it looked too nice and thought we got to make it ugly and not as tall because tall is too exciting
 
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torontodweller said:
why do they do this every time. it starts off amazing then next thing you know they down grade the designs and it ends up half as good at the original design. probably some idiot at city hall all thought it looked too nice and thought we got to make it ugly and not as tall because tall is too exciting
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Tell me you know nothing about this without telling me you know nothing about this...
 
Obviously all 45,000 City employees sit around cackling as they force poor, innocent, well-meaning private developers (in this case, the one that funds our pensions so obviously we really hate them!) to make buildings uglier. That's just what happens at City Hall, duh.
Source: that was my 2pm meeting today.

But in all seriousness, the idea that City staff would actively sabotage, of all things, an Oxford Properties (THEY ARE OWNED BY OMERS, THE CITY'S CHOSEN PENSION FUND) project, is hilarious. There are many things the City gets wrong, but like this is insane conspiracy theory territory. Yeah City staff actively sit around sabotaging their own pension cus they just hate Toronto so much despite the fact they chose to work for the municipal government. Make it make sense lol.
 
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torontodweller said:
I'm right so many towers got chopped down or degraded by so wack job at city hall
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Nobody's denying that buildings evolve through the process, it's your blunt claims that things get "chopped down" and / or "degraded" by a "wack job" at "City Hall" that bely your complete ignorance of the political and planning processes to approval.
 
torontodweller said:
I'm right so many towers got chopped down or degraded by so wack job at city hall
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I see your point about the Toronto Cheapening, but I think you are wrong about building heights being chronically reduced. I don't have a tally, but I suspect more Toronto buildings have seen increases in height rather than the inverse.
 
Strange Advance said:
I see your point about the Toronto Cheapening, but I think you are wrong about building heights being chronically reduced. I don't have a tally, but I suspect more Toronto buildings have seen increases in height rather than the inverse.
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some have been chopped down by idiots at city hall. others have been allowed to be tall.
 
ProjectEnd said:
Nobody's denying that buildings evolve through the process, it's your blunt claims that things get "chopped down" and / or "degraded" by a "wack job" at "City Hall" that bely your complete ignorance of the political and planning processes to approval.
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it's true, I remeber a few buildings were forced to reduce there size and/or change their design
 
torontodweller said:
it's true, I remeber a few buildings were forced to reduce there size and/or change their design
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Most of these buildings that you say were chopped by the City Hall were zoning exercises to raise the height in said neighborhood The reason they were chopped was because the existing residents showed up and gave their opinion which is how the system works as for buildings chopped in the inner core 90% of the time the developers the one that makes that decision as they can't sell the units and yes I know I'm engaging with a bot sue me 🤣
 
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