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Originally Posted by edslunch
Well, r-cg always was kind of available. According to the mayor, 95% of zoning change applications are approved.In my neighbourhood several r-cg were rezoned to d-c over the objections of the neighbours and community association. This will make it easier though for sure, though I imagine much of the focus will be on places like Altadore where they can carve up a lot and still charge premium prices.
As an aside, I found the mayor's rationale pretty circular. "We (the developer-friendly council) approve almost all applications that come our way no matter what the community input is, so we might as well blanket approve all of them." I wonder how this will affect their future donations from developers?
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I think another councilor brought it up but I think council approves 95% of the applications that make it to them. I am sure there are more applications that don't get administrations approval that get cancelled before making it to council. For example I have heard lots of developers have been trying to rezone industrial properties to commercial but they aren't getting administration support as they don't want to remove industrial property in the City.