[Halifax] The Vuze at South Village (Fenwick) | 106 m | 36/10/8 fl | U/C

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Problems like this basically amount to Russian roulette. Maybe this will just pass, or maybe it will become a twisted cause célèbre for the Save the View crowd even though this is a great project that has been carefully planned for years.

Most cities do not even have this layer of red tape to worry about. HRM by Design has supposedly decreased the average approval time, but I wonder what the average time to a building permit is when you factor in bureaucratic delays like this one, the Jazz building permit refusal, or the delays for the Drum condos. It seems like a substantial number of routine development projects in Halifax run into bureaucratic problems. Some projects are never built, and we do not know how many are never even proposed because development instead goes to suburban areas or other cities that are friendlier to investment.