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How can city council go ahead and approve it in light of the planning report? It seems there are a number of concerns. The city planners are just implementing the official plan and related guidelines that were adopted by the province and the city. It seems to be me that if this gets approved than the whole planning process is a joke. I don't want to see these buildings left stagnant either but developers are very experienced - they know the official plan; they know the guidelines for development and tall towers. They should have considered this before purchasing the property and come up with a design that conforms to the official plan and guidelines rather than just assuming they can just ignore it.
Unfortunately, money always wins, and this will likely get approved one way or another (OMB?), thus once again rewarding developers for breaking the rules and not even attempting to find a solution that is appropriate to the site.
Not to mention I can think of plenty of things that could have been done to create residential uses on this site that are far more interesting than another point tower dropped onto the site.