Downtown Toronto
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Where's the joke? When the original zoning amendment was negotiated, they arrived at a particular maximum height based on local conditions. If the developer wants more, it's up to them to convince at Committee of Adjustment why their building should be allowed to exceed what was already negotiated. If they don't have a convincing case, they don't get more. Now they're taking the next option open to them, and we'll see if they can convince the OMB or not.
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The Joke is that in all likelihood the 3.25 meter requested will be accepted at the OMB, they are not asking to add an additional 10 floors here. The cost to the city for attending the OMB for a case like this is a total waste of tax payer dollars and in my opinion unnecessary. At the end of the day it comes out of our pockets. The cities approach has zero logic even though they know they will lose, I can name a half dozen similar cases off the top of my head that ended up at the OMB with the city losing, all of minor things