05-31-2023, 08:53 PM
(05-31-2023, 04:38 PM)panamaniac Wrote: They can't approve it until the zoning amendment appeal is dealt with, can they?
Ah, I just mean potential NIMBY complaints or whatever it was that caused this. If the developer felt forced to appeal to the OLT then it must have received opposition from the surrounding community. I don't see what the issue would be, though. 15 trees would have to be cut down which indeed is a shame, but we can grow as many new trees as we want. How many NIMBYs who say that do you think regularly plant trees anyway? It's usually a BS excuse. Most couldn't give a shit. There are 20 units and 23 parking spaces proposed, so that surely can't be an issue. It's only 3 floors, so ignoring the fact that it's basically surrounded by parking lot anyway and therefore shouldn't really cast a shadow on neighbouring properties: shadow impact at that height ought to be no worse than what a tree would cast. One I especially hate hearing is that White Saviour #12809 is worried us Indigenous people were not consulted, so they have to feel offended for us. Nobody but bored social justice warrior "allies" really care about the stuff like the Haldimand Tract dispute - and, of course, NIMBYs who feel like they can use us to delay or have council reject projects. The reality is most of us Indigenous people know we need housing...lots of it...yesterday.
If I had to guess, it's probably what bravado suggested.
In any case, this stuff is so frustrating. I hate dealing with it in my work. But more so I hate dealing with it as a citizen of this province. This entire nation is lacking housing. The Liberal government opened the floodgates on immigration despite this housing crisis, because who else is going to make a Tim Horton's B.E.L.T. for minimum wage? With 500'000 people coming into the country each year we need more houses, transit, health care etc. But when we are presented with opportunities from developers to make more of what we need, it frequently gets stalled by this sort of nonsense. Time, money and patience continually gets wasted when developers are forced to spend money on lawyers and strategizing how to re-design projects so Karen doesn't write an angry e-mail about traffic again. Since politicians are narccistic, power hungry a-holes most of the time, they are more concerned with not pissing off their voters next election, even though they should be trying to be honest and principled and act accordingly. And then when projects do get rejected...it doesn't make developers feel very confident in investing in this area, which is tragic. If you spend millions acquiring a new property, hire architects/engineers/archeologists/planners/etc to design everything, pay lots of fees just to submit it to the city and then you find your efforts are rejected because of crap excuses...it doesn't exactly make a developer want to try again. They might if they have deep pockets or if they have already spent so much that they feel obliged to re-work it or go to the OLT, but after that a sane developer is just going to accept that it is just a waste of time to attempt to accomplish work in this region.