ADRM
Senior Member
Yeah but out of those 400 to review how many are over 100 yrs old, does this city not look at heritage designation by age and prioritize it?,
or do they just go around identifying mediocre 60s-70s stuff and throw it all into the mix??
Well, that's a question of prioritizing some aspects of heritage preservation over others (i.e. not all would agree that older is always better), which is subjective, so I don't think it's completely fair to say "bureaucrats messed up because this one should've been obvious."
The biggest problem here, to me (other than the loss of a historically significant building), is that a councillor's first inclination was to blame thinly stretched bureaucrats whose budget she's acted against increasing, and whom she knows cannot defend themselves by virtue of their position (Keesmaat herself is in a unique position in that regard because of her public profile). It's just irresponsible and, frankly, mean-spirited.