It appears we have two "Planning Departments" in Toronto. There's the group headed up by Gary Wright and then there's the local councillor.
During the Miller Administration the local councillor needed the approval of the New Development Party and that's about the extent of planning in this City.
The "Planning Department" is seriously underfunded for these very reasons. Why pay for more professionals when Council need on order-takers. "I'd like a 20 storey building here but the Official Plan says I can't have it" says a councillor to the planner, "OK, here's how we will get around that" says Mister Wright.
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