[Keith P.]

Those reports and hearing minutes make for fascinating if not depressing reading. How foolhardy was it for Dartmouth council 30 years ago to set height limits and viewplanes for downtown development? There has been virtually no development since that time. One wonders why council would have been concerned with putting in place things that inhibit the already weak development climate for the area.

The comments at the various hearings were surprisingly supportive, but the usual voices (Ruffman and Pacey) naturally showed up to decry the proposal. Pacey went on about preserving the views from various old 2-storey buildings in the area. Good lord. Some of the other comments are simply hilarious. Someone asked whether the design had taken into account climate change effects so that if a "large ship" broke free of its moorings and crashed into the site, would the buildings fall down... criminy.