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The meeting was last night - an account from interchange42 at UT

There were at least 3 UTers at the meeting tonight.

There were few members of the York Quay Neighbourhood Association present, and the meeting was perfectly civil, some good questions, no yelling.

The meeting was conducted by Mark Bales, development director at Pinnacle. Peter Smith, a planner at Bousfields talked about the project in the context of the city and broader provincial planning rationale, then turned the meeting over to David Pontarini who gave a thorough overview of the proposal.

There is concern in the neighbourhood that the project might overwhelm the sidewalks and traffic situation, but a transportation planner was on hand to answer questions about how that is being planned for. People seemed reasonably satisfied by the responses.

Nobody - NOBODY - complained that the buildings were too tall.

The meeting ended with a small round of applause after the last audience member to speak (cough) mentioned, in essence, that this appears to be quite a well thought out and exciting project.

There was not a lot new presented at the meeting that UT readers won't already know, but there were a couple of interesting details presented. I'll explain those in a front page story soon; I am requesting images so that those things can be explained clearly.