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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
This just happened in Cochrane. The municipal government wanted to build a concrete plant and gravel pit down by the river, bordering Glenbow Provincial Park and a bunch of residential neighborhoods.
They had a town forum to discuss the plan where there was almost universal opposition.
They agreed to mitigate the problems presented by the citizens, using mitigators to mitigate the mitigation. They were very vague.
Project was approved.
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It’s also a winning formula for developers. Propose something that is outside of the current zoning in every regard, have a public consultation, magnanimously ‘make concessions’, but keep what they really wanted. Ok, we’ll bring the height down and add the garbage bins (but we’ll keep the extra units we jammed in).