6VIC (600 Victoria St S) | 3 fl | Proposed

[dtkvictim]

...illegal? Why? Of course they'll need to grow, but they'll look like that one day. It would be odd to release renderings of what a building site would look like immediately post-construction. Would you want the renders to have no grass and patches of gravel instead?

I think the misrepresentation being referred to is showing a four lane high speed highway which has killed several people at this location as a small inoffensive residential street with more pedestrians than cars.

This is what I might WANT, but it is certainly not what exists, and the city's policy will not create that in the future.

That being said, I'm not sure how you legislate this, it's a graphic image, none of it exactly matches reality, so of course it's going to show the development in the best light. Anyone who buys a property without even visiting the site on google maps I dunno...whatever...I know it's a missrepresentation, but it's not a hard to see through.

Yeah, this is more what I was trying to say. It's more about the representation of the road than the trees. That said, I don't know if the term "greenwashing" applies here, but I do think it's a problem in this kind of advertising.

Basically, I view this as a form of false advertising. Of course it's hard or impossible to legislate. Since it's not a photograph of a real thing, it's never going to be perfectly accurate. I think people who do their research before buying a place like this can still be influenced by advertising like this without realizing it.