Citizens should ask if politicians are giving special favour to high-end developers.
Municipalities are often seen to protect the interests of property developers over ordinary residents. In light of a newby My Vote Counts on the secret financial ties between big businesses and politics, citizens should ask if politicians are giving special favour to high-end developers – and if so, why.
For example, one development was passed with an error which allowed the developer to exceed the permitted bulk, an “error” acknowledged in a meeting by the developer’s architect. The city planners took no action to rectify the issue. Every process seems to be designed to reach the same conclusion: the development proceeds, no matter what., has shown how development decisions can create instant wealth for certain individuals and how such decisions might be subject to political pressures to serve party interests.
Additionally, communities and community members are entitled by the Constitution to be sure that administrative processes are fair, just, and transparent. Housing activists at Reclaim the City and in other civic organisations have raised similar questions about developers who always seem to be in the good graces of officials in the city and provincial government.
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