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Originally Posted by Slava
It's not honest because the outcome is predetermined. How do you have an honest consultation where the decision is already made? An honest consultation would be "hey, we're thinking of this, but before we decide we want to know what you guys who are about to be impacted think."
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Ok, but I’m actually asking if that was the way the consultation was prefaced?
Whether the outcome is predetermined or not doesn’t have anything to do with the “honesty” of a consultation, unless you’re completely distorting what a consultation actually is and trying to position it as a vote.
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While I was writing this post I looked more into it, and it looks like it wasn’t prefaced as any sort of discussion or consultation, it was just a public notice (of which all approved developments go through) and anyone can appeal any approved development at any time and some advocacy group happened to glom on to this one?
So, it’s not like the city specifically set out to consult with anyone on whether they should go forward with this, is it? It had already been approved by the time the responses started coming in? Am I wrong here? Cause it doesn’t seem like the city is the group being dishonest here…