In tandem with the City's appeal to divisional court, the City filed a motion to the OMB seeking a stay of their decision to allow Freed's appeal for minor variances. Essentially, this motion sought to place a temporary hold (until the conclusion of the divisional court appeal) on the issuance...

I think what seperates the two is that on the one hand, Manulife succesfully represents a particular aesthetic, brutalism/modernism, while on the other hand, Uptown is only very weakly tied to art deco/art moderne. Really, the only thing it has that could be construed as similar to this latter...

Exactly.

One need not turn to New York to criticize uptown. One St. Thomas is a good example of a contemporary building that does a much better job of mimicking the form of early 20th century skyscrapers without resorting to cheap finishes. One St. Thomas even manged to pull off the rounded-edge roofline...

I think what he's getting at is that if this tower goes through, it will set a precedent for the area in terms of how far above current density and height limits developers can expect to be granted. This in turn will cause property values to rise immensely thus pricing out the current uses in...

The point I was trying to make was that regardless of a phenomenom being inherent in a system, human beings are value creating and assessing creatures, and therefore, even though some things are 'naturally' occuring, they can still be valued as a problem.

Ahh yes, much like the successful Cumberland Terraces. Nothing like a mini-mall to energize the street. And what does that even mean? Does the 'energy' of Yorkville not cross from the west to east side of Bellair?

Cancer is a natural part of society. It's not a problem, so why do we need a solution for it?

224 King Street West. Good architecture, bad planning.

The article says that Regent Park and Rosedale both voted for Smitherman, whereas the Bridle Path and Lawerence Heights voted for Ford. The point he was trying to make is that in areas of the city where average income levels are more mixed by geographic proximity, people generally voted for...

What I want to know is why did Ayn Rand and Milton Friedman never have a love child..... or did they?

First of all, you confused his conclusion for a premise... Secondly, in political theory, it is generally acknowledged that libertarianism is an offshoot liberalism. Libertarianism generally is concerned with individual liberty in an absolute sense: each individual should have the right to do...

But does he have any laneways, real or otherwise?

That is interesting, can you provide me a link to the Hemson Consulting Report?

Glen, I'd agree with you that commercial property taxes should continue to decrease, but I question some of your other assertions. Due to land availability, I would assume that the average price of commercial land is higher in toronto than in the surrounding suburbs, although I may be wrong...

But Toronto isn't averting 'bankruptcy' by taking on more debt. Preparing a municipal operating budget is different than a corporate balance sheet. The budget sets out expected expenditures and revenue sources for the coming year. If the expenditures are expected to be greater than the revenues...

The article you provided is interesting. It does seem to suggest a correlation between lower taxes and positive net migration. The problem with some guy pulling numbers from the Census Bureau is that this is not statisitcal analysis. While there may indeed be an association between lower taxes...

You know what makes your positions particularly enlightening? Your rhetoric is so bloated it puts stretch marks on the truth. I am glad you provided a link to that article from more than a year ago about nine city employees getting caught and fired for submitting fraudulent benefits claims. They...

Let me preface this by saying that I do not think that the city is currently in a perfect, ideal state. Nevertheless, after reading several of your posts, I have to say Fresh Start, that you are full of shit. On the one hand you do nothing more than make vague allusions to the decrepit state of...