8 mediation sessions for a project that should be a slam dunk is a pretty damning condemnation of the current state of the planning regime.

That probably added between $750K and $1M in costs to the project on soft costs alone, to say nothing of the cost of delay (though I'm not sure TAS has money to build this anyway...).
 
8 mediation sessions for a project that should be a slam dunk is a pretty damning condemnation of the current state of the planning regime.

To be fair to Planning.........there was more to it than that.
 
They would need money for that. Or to actually own the property. Or...
...so to be clear, they need to rezone the property to sell? Or they don't even have the funds to do that...and hope someone with money will take notice of all the pretty renders here?
 
Settlement Docs are now public:


High level link above as there lots of attachments.

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Lots more to be found by following the link above.

@Paclo
 
The database has been updated to reflect the settlement proposal. Changes are as follows:
  • Storeys increased from 20 to 25
  • Height increased from 79.58 to 80.65m
  • Total residential units increased from 162 to 186
  • Total vehicular parking increased from 55 to 57
  • Primary architect is now Hariri Pontarini
  • Public realm & technical revisions mostly covered in the post above by @Northern Light
Updated rendering:
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Updated massing:
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OLT hearing scheduled for January 13th, 2025
 
I used to live in 44 Walmer, which looks quite handsome in those models, even though it will now be dwarfed.
 
...gotta feeling the pitch folks are gonna come out for those cluster of new towers there. >.<
 

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