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Originally Posted by you&me
Since you brought this up - as a committee, do you have any "teeth" when it comes to design standards, quality of material, etc? Can you send a developer back to the drawing board to come up with something "better"? Or are we working on a "please, just build something" basis?
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Unfortunately, we do not; our work is more high-level / 50-year planning type stuff. Those decisions about materials, design, color, etc. are reviewed during the Development Permit process with the City, and that's when that process would mostly happen (and this is when the developer could be told to go revise their design). If there's a development that's particularly controversial / needs further review, it can go through the Calgary Planning Commission (made up of public sector folks), and/or the Urban Design Review Panel (made up of industry experts).
Hope this helps!