Toronto Star

The more Toronto changes, the more it stays the same. A public meeting Tuesday was a good example. The subject was the 46-storey condo tower the Royal Ontario Museum hopes to build on the McLaughlin Planetarium site. Needless to say, virtually everyone who showed up opposed the project. The main reason was height. So what else is new? That Torontonians hate tall buildings is a foregone conclusion. They always have. That's why locals get misty-eyed remembering when David Crombie was our tiny perfect mayor and his 14-metre height by-law was still the law. Well, sort of. Those were the days all right. Developers knew who was boss and city hall was there to keep them in line. Funny, then, how we look back at the buildings of the 1960s and '70s and wonder what was going on. They're so damn ugly, it's hard to imagine how we let them get built.