11-24-2024, 04:57 PM
(11-24-2024, 04:09 PM)ac3r Wrote: That's good news, but probably so frustrating for the developer. To spend tons of money and labour to plan, design and apply to have a project built only for the City of Waterloo to say no has to drive them crazy. I don't get the logic either. Presumably it's because some people are choosing to be conservative about development, not wishing to rapidly change the uptown street scape and urban character it has always had. But then they have no problem rubber stamping eyesore after eyesore around the universities, which have collectively done so much damage that there have been entire lectures in university about what a mess the city has become. Long term, this glacial process of approving things uptown is just going to result in this awkward patchwork of stuff that lacks any sort of coherent plan, whereas you look at downtown and see that at least they're trying to keep things structured and well planned in spite of the rapid development taking place.
It seems like everyone involved with making decisions at the city level is more concerned about the horrible costs of "buildings that aren't slender enough" than the costs of an entire generation losing their future.
local cambridge weirdo