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Originally Posted by isaidso
Halifax is quite dense, but it's sure not a city with much in the way of height. It's low and mid rise downtown for the most part.
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There is a trade-off between having taller buildings and redeveloping more underused land. The city's planning rules limit most areas to shorter buildings, and there is effectively an 80-90 meter height limit downtown, although other areas could theoretically have taller buildings.
I think this is fine. There is only so much demand for new space and there is a lot of land that is underused, particularly when you start to consider outer parts of the urban core. Halifax would be a much better city if all the holes along Gottingen Street were filled with 8 or 10 storey buildings. I'm not sure the difference between a 20, 30, or 40 storey apartment building downtown would be as significant.