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Originally Posted by lio45
By definition, using a loophole is always technically legal.
Normally, if a loophole gets identified, you introduce legislation to close it, and THEN no one will be able anymore to do what was doable using it... but you can't retroactively invalidate something that was legitimately done using the loophole back when the laws allowed it (even if it went against the "spirit", it complied with the "letter").
At first sight, the developers are on the right side of the law here.
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THIS.
When you work for developers, you end up digging for every square foot of floor area, utilizing any precedents, loopholes, obscure provisions, etc that you can. And it's all entirely legal because those are the rules at the time of application.
If the developers were granted legal permitted right to build by the City,
built the plans to those approved drawings, what anyone else says doesn't mean dick. I bolded that because if there are any changes, it opens up things to interpretation.
None of that of course will not stop wealthy people with too much money and too much time keeping it in court forever.
I don't see these floors ever coming off.
I would be curious if the lawsuit (or injunction or whatever) could hold up final occupancy of the tower?
That in and of itself would be create a total cluster even beyond this lawsuit.