(11-06-2023, 10:08 PM)ZEBuilder Wrote: There was no reason provided but this has been delayed again this time to the December 11th council meeting. Presumably NAV Can hasn't worked out the issues they have with the height of the building yet.
Unsure why Waterloo Regional Airport flightpaths would be an issue here. It's about 8.5 KM from the edge of the runway, and not exactly a straight flightpath either.
In contrast, Billy Bishop in Toronto is 750 meters from tall buildings (not in the flightpath either).
Where I live is fairly close to the flightpath (as in a straight line), 9 KM roughly from airport, and at that point, the 737's are still fairly high in the air.
So, these commercial passenger airliners need to descend at a rate of at least 1,500 feet per minute minimum. They are travelling about 300 kph during that time. That works out to 5 km per minute. This means, if a passenger airplane were to descend over 417 King St West, its minimum distance from the ground would be 2,550 feet (minus 80 feet, see next (italics)) Even if we're generous with this build, say at 12' per floor, its height would be 660' (plus 80 feet elevation above the airport, as 417 King St is 1096 feet above sea, while the airport is at 1017 feet) or about 1,820 below the airlines flightpath. Again, those are minimums. An airline could be 2x the height and still be able to land safely.
You literally could build a duplicate CN Tower on that property and have zero interference on any airline.
It's not complicated math. Unsure how this is even an issue. Obviously someone complained and now they have to do their "due diligence" but damned if someone at City Hall can't figure that this isn't an issue, well, SMH.