Seven months after the hearing and still no decision (in favour of the developer)? Beyond pathetic.
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Tim1234
Active Member
This fight almost seems civil compared to 321 Davenport. Perhaps the developer didn't try for enough density??
innsertnamehere
Superstar
They like to take their time sometimes. I've seen 12 months.
Any analysis whether the decisions that have taken obnoxiously long to be made have smelled more? This one doesn't seem that complicated to me, and the lethargic pace at which it is being resolved has me suspicious of the reasons why.
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innsertnamehere
Superstar
PL140985 had a decision issued October 17th 2016 for a hearing that took place November 7th, 2015. It's the longest I know about, for a semi-detached infill development in Uxbridge. It is a 36 page decision, so not small, but ultimately only for a 27 unit semi-detached infill subdivision.
saynotofaux
Active Member
200 St. Clair Ave. West took 16 months.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
From a resource perspective, one'd hope the amount of time spent on a case is proportionate to impact - which is minuscule in this case.
AoD
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PMT
Senior Member
Denied at the OMB: http://www.omb.gov.on.ca/e-decisions/pl151111-Dec-13-2017.pdf
Avenue
Active Member
You can't build townhouses on a major road a stone's throw away from subway? Yet we see ridiculous density getting built in transit deserts. So much for Keesmat's 'missing middle' and 'transit oriented development' fluff on twitter.
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Bogtrotter
Senior Member
These handsome looking townhouses are not overbearing at all- could in fact be quite elegant. What exactly can be built here then.
Tim1234
Active Member
Wow...that is scandalous. One of the stranger decisions I have ever read.
A single row of Townhome units and a semi or detached home on Weybourne is technically permitted as-of-right in the ZBL. Decision doesn't even mention that. Smells really fishy to me.
A single row of Townhome units and a semi or detached home on Weybourne is technically permitted as-of-right in the ZBL. Decision doesn't even mention that. Smells really fishy to me.
AlvinofDiaspar
Moderator
Nothing strange at all when you take power relations into account.
AoD
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saynotofaux
Active Member
"The Board also does not agree with the Appellant’s submission (and Mr. Smith’s opinion) that because of perceived deficiencies in the OP and the fact that the City has not adequately re-evaluated its designated intensification areas to encompass radius zones around major transit stations the Appellant is entitled to “initiate” intensification on a site-specific basis in a Neighbourhoods designation to correct these shortcomings."
Fascinating decision.
Fascinating decision.
The atrophying yellow belt is inviolate, apparently.
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A Torontonian Now
Senior Member
The inviolate preservation of the yellow belt areas (particularly in the most affluent neighbourhoods) as upheld in this decision has to be the most inappropriate and incongruous part of Toronto's present planning regime.