Parkside Urban Towns (née 83 Elmsdale Dr) | U/C

[tomh009]

The point of Official Plans and zoning rules is to help guide large swaths of city building, without needing to apply direct attention to each and every project. Pedestrian non-hostile developments need not be a zero-sum game.

Does the Elmsdale project meet the current zoning rules (which in turn conform to the city's official plan)?  If not, then I agree that the developer should change it and conform to that zoning.

But if it does, then you need to start by lobbying the city to change the zoning rules for areas outside the downtown core.  Developers will not, in general, develop projects to some higher ideals unless those ideals are enforced through zoning.