Having attended some community consultation meetings relating to condo developments proposed in my area, it's my observation that the politicians simply seek the meager benefits that current provincial law allows them to obtain from developers. There was little sense that anybody other than developers control the process and at one meeting the local councillor exasperatedly admitted this to constituents. Councillors, like all politicians, will try to look good and get what they can out of a given process and to me that's what's going on where development is concerned. They have little real actual power other than to try to negotiate with developers, who hold the upper hand.