{"id":24902,"date":"2012-01-12T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T14:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=24902"},"modified":"2013-01-21T14:45:52","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T19:45:52","slug":"is-there-planning-law-or-just-city-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/12\/is-there-planning-law-or-just-city-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday (Jan. 13), the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is hosting an all-day Conference on Municipalities and Land Use Planning, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.utoronto.ca\/visitors_content.asp?itemPath=5%2F7%2F0%2F0%2F0&amp;contentId=2215\" target=\"_blank\">Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conference will discuss topics such as &#8220;Design, politics, and prominent city lands&#8221; (read: the waterfront), the Ontario Municipal Board, and &#8220;Law, ethics, and municipal government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Speakers will include Richard Sommer, Dean of the U of T Faculty of Architecture, former Toronto Chief Planner Paul Bedford, and a keynote address by former Mayor David Miller.<\/p>\n<p>I will be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordfaire.com\/utlaw\/\" target=\"_blank\">live-blogging this conference<\/a> for the Faculty of Law (along with the occasional <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/UTlaw\" target=\"_blank\">Tweet<\/a>, hashtag #poliplan), if any of our readers want to follow it or check out what is being said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Friday (Jan. 13), the University of Toronto Faculty of Law is hosting an all-day Conference on Municipalities and Land Use Planning, &#8220;Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?&#8221; The conference will discuss topics such as &#8220;Design, politics, and prominent city lands&#8221; (read: the waterfront), the Ontario Municipal Board, and &#8220;Law, ethics, and municipal<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2012\/01\/12\/is-there-planning-law-or-just-city-politics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Is there Planning Law or just City Politics?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,20],"tags":[425,631,3799,426,83,1176,2944,1546,12,18414,5022,10204,19175],"class_list":["post-24902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-urban-design","tag-david-miller","tag-dean","tag-faculty-of-architecture","tag-mayor","tag-omb","tag-ontario-municipal-board","tag-paul-bedford","tag-planner","tag-planning","tag-richard-sommer","tag-toronto-chief-planner","tag-university-of-toronto-faculty","tag-university-of-toronto-faculty-of-law"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Is there Planning Law or just City Politics? 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