02-02-2017, 10:06 AM
People in the Breithaupt neighbourhood complained to me at a consultation session about the Google building and 1Vic (all lived Northeast of Waterloo and Breithaupt). It ruined their sightlines, were ugly and always there, etc. You'll be hard pressed to find anyone advocating for height, especially when adjacent to them (see the mothballed tower by the school at King and Central in Waterloo, where council is going to make it impossible to build anything there, or the proposals for the Brick site and pushback from Catalina residents). Thankfully, the neighbours shouldn't be as big a factor in this location, but expect the Breithaupt residents to come out in force.
Why does 4 towers make it less problematic than 3? If you needed 112 floors, you could either have three towers of 37 floors, or four towers of 28 floors, almost a ten storey reduction. To opponents, this feels like progress.
Why does 4 towers make it less problematic than 3? If you needed 112 floors, you could either have three towers of 37 floors, or four towers of 28 floors, almost a ten storey reduction. To opponents, this feels like progress.