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Originally Posted by PhxDowntowner
As long as "smaller" is just in reference to the footprint, not the height, because we can still build meaningful height on 1/3 acre parcels. We MUST build height (i.e. density) where ever we can downtown. We will fail without it.
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As has been brought up numerous times, height is very, very overrated. What we need is to have buildings occupy empty parcels. Look at DC and Chicago (not downtown). What you see is there are a lot of great building-street interaction yet most places will top out at 4-5 stories. Heck I would rather have a lot of nice one-three story places in that northern stretch if it meant building out the empty parcel. Mill is a great example of how height does not equal urban success.