(02-12-2024, 03:33 PM)tomh009 Wrote:

(04-25-2023, 05:34 PM)ac3r Wrote: This has been sent to the OLT: https://www.therecord.com/local-waterloo/news/2023/04/24/what-s-going-on-here-proposed-towers-in-waterloo-under-appeal-by-developers.html

The OLT hearing was cancelled in November (and the case closed), so this project appears to be dead.

(02-14-2024, 02:17 PM)ac3r Wrote: It's funny because Dorothy McCabe was campaigning on wanting to totally transform Waterloo into modern, progressive city that would evolve with the times. And people ate that up and asked for seconds while forgetting she is a generic big tent Liberal Party stooge with a decent amount of skill points put into Opportunism, as she quickly jumped on the chance to finally run for office.

Feels like the city is stagnant by design, at least outside of the Northdale areas where they have contained all of these student apartment buildings. Very little progress has been made elsewhere.

(02-14-2024, 01:47 AM)urbd Wrote:

(02-12-2024, 03:33 PM)tomh009 Wrote: The OLT hearing was cancelled in November (and the case closed), so this project appears to be dead.

Very interesting. It seems that the majority of recent (non student) Waterloo proposals just can't take off... I can think of a bunch in Uptown - including Strata. The land values and construction costs are so insanely inflated, plus outdated regulations, that nothing seems to work. Waterloo is stagnant.

(03-14-2024, 09:43 PM)nms Wrote: It wasn't clear to me from the article: if the City approved the proposal as requested, on what grounds did the developer go to the OLT?