[S-Man]

This is just so commonplace that I can hardly bring myself into commenting.

Building within zoning would bring another one-storey industrial building or a two story home. So, no change. Everyone happy.

Heating costs? Really? How do you figure you'll use 15% more heating fuel? And as for the landscape being dominated for kilometres - where within the greenbelt isn't the landscape dominated? Even if a building is in sight your life is ruined? No one go to the beach - there's a 16 storey building four kilometres away and our experience will be ruined as we peer into the distance, single out one structure, and fume over how angry we are.

Don't walk your dog at the Arboretum, there's a university tower over there on the Carleton campus. You'll have to see it, and will have no choice but to leave in a huff and pretend you're in a green field that ISN'T near a building in a city.

After looking at the last 10 years of this stuff, I've concluded there is no spot anywhere in or near the city to build a tall building. Not downtown, with all the tall buildings, not in the exurban areas with their selective highrises - nope, nothing over two storeys, anywhere anyone might see it.