The planners had specifically requested that we provide these basic outlines by early July in order to be reviewed in time for the September Community Council meeting. After rushing to do so, we arrived at City Hall with the plans and were informed that the submission was now considered a ‘new application?and thus a new application fee of $180,000 - was required (yes, that’s right, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, which of course had dramatically risen since the time we had made the original application). Obviously we questioned the validity of this fee, as the planners and councilor had previously indicated that we were operating within the old application. The matter was referred to the City legal department, although we were advised that if we wanted to be sure to be on the September agenda we probably should just pay the fee (. ‘cuz, gosh, they might just not have time to review the file, if you catch my drift).