Robert Randall of the Downtown Residents' Association is the subject of a pretty good article in the new edition of Monday Magazine:
A Victoria Visionary...
He seems to be on the ball. Check this out:
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“People are so focussed on height, because the only figure they’re able to comprehend is the height. It’s like looking at a painting and only looking at the width,” he says. “What was that painting like? Oh, it was 18 inches wide. But what colour was it? How tall was it? Was it thick, was it thin, was it oil?”
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“A lot of the people on the board and land use committee are artists, so we tend to look at things like, ‘how does it look? How does it fit?’ rather than whether it conforms to the numbers,” he explains.
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Interesting cover picture. Are they suggesting he's trying to walk on water? Victoria's notorious naysayers might think he's stuck in the mud. Anyway, we finally get to see what the oft-quoted Randall actually looks like:
