General Urban Kitchener Updates and Rumours

[dtkvictim]

For me the irony is the high rise in the background.  They have been present for a great many years without comprimising the integrity of that heritage community.  Additionally, there is a much higher building proposed right across the road...

I get the irony. My point is that the individual living in the shadow of that highrise might directly feel that the building has been compromising the quality of the neighbourhood (for heritage reasons or otherwise) for all these years. Being so close to it perhaps gives them that most informed opinion.

Using an existing highrise as justification for another one also gives ammunition to the common slippery slope argument of "If we allow this one, we've opened the floodgates. How many more will follow?". Especially when the common rebuttal to that argument, including from folks on this forum, is that it's just one tower... we aren't Manhattan or Toronto after all.