Is there some tit for tat going on at city hall? Why is a developer having a problem renting sales office space on Brant Street?

News 100 blueBy Pepper Parr

December 15, 2014

BURLINGTON, ON.

 

Is there a developer in town with a small, small zoning problem? Wants to use some retail space on Brant Street as a sales office for a forthcoming, high end 28 storey structure that has yet to get past the Planning Department.

375 Brant - Adi

The corner of Brant and Pine could be a sterling location for a property sales office for planned high end units looking over the lake.

The city has apparently taken the view that the purpose is for use of the space as an office which the current zoning doesn’t permit.

If there was ever an argument the developer should win – this is one of them. Sure there will be some clerical administrative work done but the purpose is to sell those units in the building they want to put up at Lakeshore Road.

Hard to find anyone on Council that loves this development idea very much but is it not a bit of a stretch to say the space will be an “office” when it is clearly a sales office.

Forcing the developer to go to the Committee of Adjustment for the variance is pushing it a bit.

Looking at who is sitting on the Committee of Adjustment this session is interesting.

We will update this story when the good folks at the Committee of Adjustment at city hall are at their desks.

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2 comments to Is there some tit for tat going on at city hall? Why is a developer having a problem renting sales office space on Brant Street?

  • Tom Muir

    I don’t see a problem with the city taking this position on the matter. The fact is the developer has nothing to sell, so how can it be a “sales office” or “condo store”? It’s just a propaganda office.

    And it’s not “planned high end condos”, but just “applied for hypothetical condos”. It’s not even a floor plan paper reality.

    It’s just a developer trick and attempt to produce and sell some bull.

  • Twenty-eight stories at Martha and Lakeshore is asinine … why not build yet ANOTHER downtown district that mimics Toronto … no one can see the lake!

    And Mr. Rusin, you are taking yourself so far out the political spectrum with your pomposity, as to be laughable, not to mention ludicrous.

    The sooner you start playing nicely in the sandbox the better you’ll be in terms of a political future.

    Ms. Meed Ward has got you beat!