Television city condos | 109 m | 32 & 32 fl | Under Construction

[bigguy1231]

Originally Posted by durandy

Th city has in house OMB lawyers.

Lamb will have the best OMB lawyers and consultants money can buy. It will be no contest.

[durandy]

Originally Posted by bigguy1231

Lamb will have the best OMB lawyers and consultants money can buy. It will be no contest.

I'm not sure about that. As far as I've heard, the tale that developers always win at the OMB was made up by neighbourhood associations and municipalities piggybacked on it to lobby for reforms to the system. In fact, the municipality wins (or 'won') something like 60% of the time. And many of those cases where the developer won was because of cases like ward boundaries in Hamilton, where council took up a patently unreasonable position knowing full well it was likely to lose at the OMB, for the sake of political optics. The fact is that the city has very good planners and experts and there is (was) already an underlying trend toward deference to municipal decision-making. That makes the developer's task pretty difficult no matter how nice a suit their lawyer is wearing.

[bigguy1231]

Originally Posted by durandy

I'm not sure about that. As far as I've heard, the tale that developers always win at the OMB was made up by neighbourhood associations and municipalities piggybacked on it to lobby for reforms to the system. In fact, the municipality wins (or 'won') something like 60% of the time. And many of those cases where the developer won was because of cases like ward boundaries in Hamilton, where council took up a patently unreasonable position knowing full well it was likely to lose at the OMB, for the sake of political optics. The fact is that the city has very good planners and experts and there is (was) already an underlying trend toward deference to municipal decision-making. That makes the developer's task pretty difficult no matter how nice a suit their lawyer is wearing.

Tell Burlington that.