From the Niagara Falls Review:
Hoteliers Victor and Carmen Menechella will be allowed to build one of the Fallsview area’s densest hotels despite the objections of the city’s planning department and its next-door neighbour.
“As it sits here, I think it’s not a bad idea. It’s a smart idea and it fits nicely,” Coun. Jim Diodati said moments before councillors voted 5-2 Monday to give the Menechellas the green light to build a new Hampton Inn at 6505 Fallsview Blvd. They also own the nearby Embassy Suites hotel.
City council gave them the green light to build a 30-storey, 383-room hotel, north of Dixon Street on a site that’s less than a half-acre.
Previous zoning would have allowed only a four-storey structure.