In other words, let's keep shoving more crap glass highrises up where they don't belong, right?
The Framework should only be approved if it's a good plan, and I absolutely believe it to be. Nothing should be shoved down any Councillor's throat, they should consider every issue before them based on facts, public input, studies, EA's, reports from experts on a given topic, legal opinions and such then vote for what they believe is best for this city. If the plan for this group who bought these properties is to throw up yet another cheaply built, boring glass highrise then it should be denied at this location, and will be under the Framework.
Further, yes, development is moving too fast in Toronto now and not only are we getting far too many poor to mediocre buildings there's a house of cards that could very possibly come crumbling down here.
Finally, why don't we have even one iconic highrise like Absolute in Mississauga? Just one? Toronto is booming with construction unlike any city in North America and it's one of the largest cities on the continent with not one truly iconic building since the boom began. L Tower? Maybe. Ice? We'll see. To be sure we've had some really good highrises go up (mid-rises too) but nothing like Absolute - or better. We should have had several head-turning iconic highrises deserving of international attention but we haven't. Yet all the rage is throw up more crappy glass buildings and build higher and higher. I've nothing against height, as I always say, "where appropriate", but how about a some quality here over quantity.
End of rant.