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A $500-million residential and office development that would dramatically change London’s southwest has enough political support at city council to move ahead, despite a deadlock at planning committee.

Council members from all parts of the city said they support the project, which goes before the outgoing council at its final meeting Tuesday, after several votes at planning committee last week ended in 3-3 ties.

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At least five council members who don’t sit on planning committee support the project, meaning the proposal would get the necessary eight votes to pass.

The development spark from the new community centre and the need for more housing units in London topped the list for council members supporting in principle York Development’s 1,300-unit residential and office complex at Southdale and Bostwick roads.

“We need the housing. We need the units. It’s an absolutely ideal location,” Ward 1 Coun. Michael van Holst said, making note of a weekend London Free Press story about the stress on the rental market.