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Originally Posted by Hill Country
This could go down hill like the affordable housing discussion.  I think we all agree in the sense that there are room for both. A lively street level downtown isn't mutually exclusive of a downtown with lots of high rises. People wouldn't be clamoring for downtown high rise living if the excellent street scene in Austin didn't exist. |
I'm not opposed to tall buildings. You won't find me in a charette moaning about how Austin used to be all cool and stuff. But they're hard to do, they're fragile things and if you're talking supertalls, they will meet incredible resistance in this city. And if I had to choose between 1 supertall and 50 of these mid-rises, I'd take the 50 in a heartbeat. We get so much more out that kind of development.