07-20-2017, 02:45 PM
(07-20-2017, 02:25 PM)rangersfan Wrote: The upper limit of 20 storeys for me is silly as soon for this spot.
If those residents don’t want to see any tall buildings near their house, this Region has huge areas with nothing but low-rise houses now or likely to be built in the foreseeable future. They need to choose which is more important: seeing nothing higher than their house, or living downtown. Either want can be accommodated, but not both at once.
For this particular site I think there should be pretty well no specific height limitation. If the developer determines that a 60-story needle tower is economical, they should be allowed to build it. About the only thing I wouldn’t want to see is the entire site built up to such a height, which I suspect probably would actually cast a substantial shadow. But that doesn’t seem to be how the largest buildings happen around here — it’s usually a low- or medium-rise podium, with relatively smaller towers rising into the “highrise” range.