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Originally Posted by dave8721
Against skyscrapers in general? Not really. Probably a by-product of having such a large latin american community. Random highrises are just accepted as part of city living. Most complaints are just from people living in an existing tower complaining that a new tower would block their views.
And there is a lot of nimby-ism from the gazillions of new downtown residents against things that existed before they got there (i.e. clubs, noise, ULTRA...etc).
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The terrain might have something to do with it to some degree as well.
In western cities a lot of the NIMBYism is: "Don't block my view!" "Don't block my mountain vistas, don't block my valley vistas, don't block my ocean vistas!"
And privacy issues like: "Don't look at my house/yard from your balcony!"