Mike in TO
Senior Member
I'm going to second Gristle's point and note that you often make strange posts about your opinion of what the planning department supposedly must 'think' - it has become increasingly clear that despite you being a long-time poster at UT that you still have no idea how the planning process works.... It isn't about the planning department being happy or not, there is a process that the applicant has to go through with numerous studies and reports being submitted to various departments for technical and professional review. There is also a public consultation process and there have been and will be numerous meetings between the applicants team and various departments including planning - the planners are professionals and will offer professional advice based on the provincial and municipal legislative and regulatory framework - ultimately that advice leads to a political decision which can be appealed to the OMB for further evidence based debate by professionals.
On a 'personal' level, I'm sure most planners would actually be thrilled to have the opportunity to work on such a unique and high-profile project... As usual your disdain for either the political process or planning process or the professionals involved in the process seems to be driven by a build anything as long as it is really really tall attitude - that isn't how to build a strong city and seems to suggest a very simplistic view of resolving very complex city building issues.
