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Originally Posted by koops65
It's a positive reinforcement cycle; more people + more businesses = greedy developers providing more housing for more people & businesses nearby + the added bonus's to the city from each project = better public realm for all
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LOL It's not a bonus. It's an understanding that the impact of the development (in simplest terms, more people) means a need for better, improved amenities. Ideally, this fee would be used to subsidized the costs of new spaces than just subsidizing the costs of renovating existing public spaces and amenities. It's just a little too costly to expect in the boom we're having. Ideally, the privately owned public spaces would be indistinguishable from publicly owned spaces. That isn't the case. These space are nice and pretty but clearly purposely designed to be uninviting as public use spaces and discourage " loitering" as they tend to put things.
Things aren't bad overall but, hardly as win win as you make it. More people are having to share those same public spaces which most have agree for many years includes an insufficient amount of usable green spaces. It be more dire without WaterfrontTO and TCHC public/private partnership