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Originally Posted by kijoma
There are so many 7 to 11 storey buildings going up in this area, the amount of development is actually really impressive I think. Plus, there are so many houses on Macara, it would be kind of weird to build a skyscraper right next to them.
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I actually agree with the first part of this, at least—there’s a lot of new density going up around here. The idea that this area is somehow lagging in new density doesn’t quite hold up; it’s densifying at an extremely fast pace with all these midrises. The census tract added 1,000 people between 2016-21–about a 40 percent increase, the fastest on the peninsula besides downtown itself (at 87 percent growth.) It’s hard to imagine that it won’t handily beat that between ‘21 and ‘26.
I think the failure is more what Someone123 indicated, around overly prescriptive height limits in general. Having said that, I also think it would make a lot more sense to open established residential areas—including and maybe especially in inner suburban areas with the potential to develop into truly urban areas—to midrise buildings, than to turn every midrise into a highrise.