[geoff's two cents]

I hope this application, if successful, coincides with A-line rapid transit, or at least includes a grocery store as part of its podium retail. Otherwise, it's more or less a textbook case of "vertical sprawl." In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the application is approved on the basis that it provides a guaranteed influx of freeway users for the city's otherwise underused ring-road network, and perhaps a captive customer base for the big-box chains that are destined to spring up on the so-called "airport" employment lands to the south. The whole prospect has something of a Mississauga ring to it.