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City Council Reaffirms Plan for the Port Lands

A sigh of relief among many as the City votes to allow Waterfront Toronto to continue with development plans.

By Hamutal Dotan

Unanimously, city council voted to endorse the leadership of Waterfront Toronto in the development of the Port Lands this afternoon, after weeks of controversy and consternation at the prospect that the project would be entirely reopened. A few of the councillors started singing “Kumbaya,” in an affectionate nod to the newly collaborative spirit at City Hall which enabled a variety of councilors—some allies of the mayor, and some in opposition—to work together on a “consensus” motion that will allow for some new discussions about accelerated timelines, but leaves the essence of the already-negotiated development plans intact.

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  • http://twitter.com/Br3ttLamb Brett Lamb

    Did anyone ever find out who paid for the Ford plan and how much it cost?

  • donbooth

    I think we need a new city manager.
    While I don’t know the details of the role the current city manager playing in suggesting cuts and in the – quite literally – thousands of details that go into making the city what it is, I know that the suggestions emanating from our current city manager indicate a total lack of understanding about what makes Toronto the city that it is.

    If anything, his cuts were even more severe than those suggested by the outside auditors.

    Most shocking, to me, were his comments at the recent hearings into his proposed cuts when he answered a question about why he had proposed that the city not honour its commitment to build social housing. He stated that we cannot afford to take this money from property taxes.

    Setting aside the fact that the city has committed to provide a certain amount of low income housing in its agreement with the province. The city manager’s proposals would certainly result in a steep increase in homelessness – along with the countless very expensive problems that go along with the homeless population.

    Most frightening of all is legislation (which was passed by council) giving the City Manager a great deal of power and the ability to make cuts as he sees fit. In doing so, of course, we subvert council’s democratic right and responsibilities, giving them to a bureaucrat whose record shows hostility toward the city’s least able citizens.

    Danger. Mr. Ford and Co. are not finished. They are not to be trusted.

  • Anonymous

    It’s absolutely pathetic that the first good thing to happen for the city under the Fords is city council agreeing to agree with the agreement they agreed to just a year or so earlier.