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Originally Posted by Waye Mason
Neither CDAC nor a PAC decides what happens. Council does. So the choice is to have a citizen review committee make a recommendation, or not. I would argue that a well designed PAC or DRC has more actual design knowledge than Council, really, most of us have no planning background.
I don't understand the CDAC hate - they did good work, the regional plan draft now is much better than 2006 and much better than staffs 1st draft.
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I don't "hate"* CDAC at all! In fact, I think it's done a great job. I view CDAC as much different than these PACs, as it has a lot more design expertise (with legit experts on there), and yes, moreso than Council. More importantly, CDAC fields HRMxD proposals from across the covered HRMxD zone, so members are not necessarily local to the neighbourhood or district for which the proposal is coming. This is in contrast to district based PACs.