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Jun 30, 2017 9:06 PM |
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Originally Posted by eburress
(Post 7851019)
I don't know what the height limit is, but there definitely is one. I'm sure some of you remember the first of the La Jolla Commons towers' height being decreased to what we have now - and - the developer having to purchase a new radar for Miramar's ATC tower just to make that (not very tall building) possible.
What's surprising is that the originally proposed LJ Commons towers were VERY tall, including a Mandarin Oriental hotel that had to be 30+ floors. I know it happens all the time, but still you'd think the developers would know better than to waste time and money proposing a building of that scale when all that was actually possible was a structure a third of that height.
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At the time it was built we were going through that financial mess that crashed around 2008 in the country.
I don't know the exact story with the La Jolla Commons but I remember a number of projects were stopped, delayed, or reduced in scale. If a project gets reduced through public "issues" with it you can read about it online. Most of these projects get reduced due to market demand changes or more simply not enough capital to build what they at first envision. A number also fade away as someone runs out of money and another project replaces it.
There may very well be a height limit in UTC. I do think a very small part of it might have height restrictions of some sort with Mira Mar at the very least.
I do find it interesting with all the high rise developments in it for years now that no height limit has been posted like it has for the downtown and numerous other areas in San Diego county. Hell we know the height limits in places like Encinitas since they gave Scripps a pass to go higher when they expanded.
If UTC does have a height limit I can't imagine it being lower than the 500 feet downtown has since the air traffic is much closer and heavier in the downtown area.
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