What one member can do is slow things down: requesting more information, moving to defer a decision, or raising amendments at committee, all of which push a project's timeline without stopping it outright unless enough of the rest of council agrees.
The real leverage in Saskatoon's process sits with the public hearing and the administration's planning recommendation, not with any one seat having a veto. A project that clears that process still has to compete with other new supply and existing resale homes once it is built, against a citywide benchmark of $444,700.
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