General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[danbrotherston]

Boring, generic, not attractive, probably too tall for the location (although mid-town as mid-rise is dead anyway).  Seems an easy approval...

I'm getting rather tired of "boring, generic, not attractive, too tall" complaints.

Even if that were true, it's housing, and we need more housing, so just approve it.

But I don't think that's true. It seems cool these days to hate on new buildings, I find most of them reasonably attractive, and frankly I'm getting tired of people telling me what my city should look like.

And please don't take this as a personal call out panamaniac, I'm replying to you, but I've gotten this reply from many others in our community, and it's just beginning to grate on me. This has been most apparent with the 20 Queen St. where the majority of the complaints aren't "this building has historic value" but instead "I hate new buildings, they're ugly, the old building is pretty".

My *ONLY* complaint is that it has too much parking...and I'd argue that unlike modern architecture, traffic is objectively a bad thing for cities.