BURLINGTON - City council reinforced its opposition to a proposed 26-storey highrise condo at the lakefront Monday, setting up an Ontario Municipal Board battle.

Council gave a final nod to rejecting the official plan and zoning changes Adi Development Group needs to build the tower at the corner of Martha Street and Lakeshore Road.

"The simplest way to speak of this application is that it's overdevelopment of a small site. It's overintensification," Coun. Marianne Meed Ward said.

Adi, however, has argued the Nautique is appropriate for the site, also noting the city has approved a 22-storey luxury hotel and condo just across Lakeshore.

The developer first appealed to the OMB in March 2015, but a year later, the board told the city to review a revised proposal.

City planning staff recommended rejecting the builder's revised proposal, a position the development and infrastructure committee backed two weeks ago.

"Those modifications still do not address the concerns of the project," Meed Ward said before Monday's council vote to ratify the committee decision.

The two sides are scheduled to meet for an OMB pre-hearing Thursday and Friday at City Hall to decide which issues will be hashed out during the Feb. 21, 2017 hearing.

The pre-hearings start at 10 a.m. in Room 426 of City Hall, which is at 426 Brant St.