{"id":2052,"date":"2007-09-12T11:49:52","date_gmt":"2007-09-12T15:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/blog\/index.php\/2007\/09\/12\/council-oks-wedging-hotel-into-small-site\/"},"modified":"2007-09-12T11:49:52","modified_gmt":"2007-09-12T15:49:52","slug":"council-oks-wedging-hotel-into-small-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/12\/council-oks-wedging-hotel-into-small-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Council OK&#8217;s wedging hotel into small site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.accessniagara.com\/c\/?1003\">Niagara This Week<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite &#8220;uniquely strong&#8221; opposition from city staff, council gave the go-ahead for the densest hotel development in the city &#8212; one which could also have dramatic adverse environmental affects for Fallsview Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>But the developer says the major impact can be corrected during the design phase and the 383-room, 30-storey Hampton Inn development at 6505 Fallsview Boulevard means more jobs and more tax revenue for the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is exactly where this type of development should be and is needed,&#8221; said Italia Gilberti, the lawyer for Victor and Carmen Menechella, the hoteliers who want to build the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>City planning staff advised council to deny the proposal because the hotel doesn&#8217;t have adequate setbacks, is not supported by the architectural peer review board and could create potential wind problems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Niagara This Week: Despite &#8220;uniquely strong&#8221; opposition from city staff, council gave the go-ahead for the densest hotel development in the city &#8212; one which could also have dramatic adverse environmental affects for Fallsview Avenue. But the developer says the major impact can be corrected during the design phase and the 383-room, 30-storey Hampton&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/accessniagara.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}