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Originally Posted by softee
Going by the development threads and database on this very forum over the last 10+ years, most proposals in Toronto seem to get built (albeit often with some revisions), and while it's true that Toronto has hundreds of tall towers spread throughout the city and suburbs, the vast majority of 150+ metre skyscrapers currently under construction/proposed are in the urban core.
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I'm sure this is right, but again, "proposed" is a meaningless term. You cannot compare "proposed" buildings across cities with any degree of accuracy because there's nothing apples-to-apples objective.
Is it a building announced in the press? Or a secret assemblage, verifiable through air rights transfers? Or a building with official permits? Or a zoning change for the purpose of new development? Or a financed site? How do you standardize when every city has different zoning/building requirements? There's no definition.
For example, new towers in NYC are not infrequently built with no new building permits. They're built as technical "alterations" of the previous building, as it's frequently advantageous in terms of zoning. How do we compare such wildly different development frameworks?