Another decent building succumbs to the 'Design Dumb Down Panel'. Wider sidewalks are nice, but are they going to move the building on the corner? There's little point in enforcing that unless the whole block has a uniformly wide sidewalk.
Simplify tower expression? Why so we can end up with something they personally like? Reduce density and height to create more livability? I suppose this is defined by these people's personal ideas about what is livable.
I'm just flabbergasted that a small group of people get to dictate to an entire city what designs we get to enjoy. These people have far too much control over the process and their power needs to be severely curtailed.
Did you actually look at the image included in the pdf?
The design is awful. I think your overeagerness for more development drives blind to the fact that certain designs must be improved (and this one isn't innovative to begin with, simply copying the lines of One Bloor), especially on major streets like Yonge.
And these people on the 'Design Dumb Down Panel' are:
Gordon Stratford (Chair): Architect, Senior Vice President, Design Director - HOK Canada
Michael Leckman (Vice Chair): Architect, Principal - Diamond and Schmitt
Robert Allsopp: Landscape Architect, Planner, Architect, Principal - du Toit Allsopp Hillier
Shirley Blumberg: Architect, Principal – KPMB
Calvin Brook: Planner, Architect, Principal - Brook McIlroy
Ralph Giannone: Architect, Principal - Giannone Associates
Charles Hazell: Heritage Specialist, Architect, Principal - Taylor Hazell Architects
Alun Lloyd: Transportation Engineer, Principal - BA Group
Jim Melvin: Landscape Architect, Principal - PMA Landscape Architects Ltd.
Roland rom Colthoff: Architect, Director – RAW Design
David Sisam: Architect, Principal – Montgomery Sisam Architects
Eric Turcotte: Planner, Architect, Senior Associate - Urban Strategies
Sibylle von Knobloch: Landscape Architect, Principle - NAK Design
Sure sound like people who don't know their stuff!