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Originally Posted by thefishingnut
I hope the City's desire to generate immediate tax revenue doesn't blind them to a project which is going to result in flooding disasters for decades.
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For better or for worse, the City (i.e. Council) effectively gave this development the green light several years ago when it approved the necessary Municipal Plan amendment and rezoning. The current regulatory hurdle is at the provincial level as part of the EIA process. At this point, once the provincial permits are obtained there's not really anything left in the way of getting the municipal development and building permits besides market considerations such as securing tenants.
Meanwhile, DevelopSJ (the municipal agency explicitly mandated with generating immediate tax revenue) has quite actively hitched its wagon to the proposal, and is lobbying the province to have the Ashburn Lake Road interchange built ASAP as part of what it calls its "top 3 catalytic development projects".
The full EIA application documents for The Crossing can be found on
this page.
Here's a higher resolution version of the current development concept:
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We could spend a great deal of time speculating on what the intent of the various building shapes and configurations are, although it's all definitely subject to revision depending on what tenants end up signing on.
You can see that the central portion has actually been reduced quite significantly since the original proposal (below):
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