04-08-2018, 04:55 PM
(04-08-2018, 04:25 PM)danbrotherston Wrote:(04-08-2018, 02:12 PM)panamaniac Wrote: Is there any doubt that the project will be approved? I noticed that yesterday's Record op-ed on the project sat so firmly on the fence that they must have been in pain. They did seem to hope that a compromise would be found that would satisfy everyone. Good luck with that ...
I believe the "compromise" has already been proposed, the site has been redesigned to make substantial improvements.
To reject this would be foolhardy. It would be another case of council yielding to NIMBYs but in reality screwing them over, because chances are, they would win at an OMB hearing, and then all those improvements that were proposed, well, no budget left for those after fighting an OMB hearing. (Not to mention taxpayer dollars being spent to fight it).
That being said, I have no idea what council will do. They seem to do sensible things downtown and in the transit corridor, but senseless things other times in other places.
The OMB is history. So it's hard to say what will happen.