A good deal of truth in what you say. We know that developers are major contributors to political campaigns.  Politicians rely on their donations, and in return, developers get what they want.  Of course, those developers get to claim 75% of their political donations on tax returns, so they get most of their money back. Not bad a bad deal for them, but a lousy deal for ordinary taxpayers who watch more look-alike condos being crammed together on sites, which once made Toronto an interesting city. Diverse? Not when you look at the same old monotonous out-of-the-box designs that are making every town and city look the same: congested, concrete, uninteresting, blah. This is the geography of nowhere brought to you by plagues of politicians.