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Well, I guess to me it really comes off as "I'm walking by your house and I don't like the flowers in your flowerbed".  It's my flowerbed...

Canard, if that's true then what's the point of zoning? It's my lot, I can build what I want on it. Zoned for retail and I want to put in an office? Good luck with saying "too bad, it's my lot" at city council.

But that's not what's being said here.  Scotiabank = Commercial, yes?  So is it not allowed to be there?  I read the previous few posts as no, it should not be there.  What would you prefer?

Zoning is A LOT more specific than just commercial/residential/industrial. The city can and does specify exactly what types of businesses are allowed. They could easily forbid banks, or something as specific as peanut butter production. All of Kitchener's mixed use corridor zones have specific rules about not allowing any car-focused business. Want to sell automotive supplies? You're out of luck, even though it's just as much retail as clothing.

As citizens we get to have an opinion on how things should be zoned, as they are zoned by our democratically elected government.

How they are ZONED, yes, sure.  But not exactly what business goes there - that's what I have a bit of a beef with.

Exactly what business goes there would be complaining it was a Scotiabank rather than a TD. Disliking that a bank is there is disliking a category of business.

In any case, I was using zoning as an example. It's just opinions, no one here is proposing actually putting it in the zoning rules.