Okay I see where the frustration is coming from and it's something I also feel that needs to be addressed. It basically comes down to city policies and regulations regarding downtown construction and how it develops. If you are upset about how these lots are being built and in how these developments end up taking huge amounts of space then you have push the city government to alter the current policies.
The developers are going to build what they can get away with and unless the city has a proactive approach to DT building utilizing smaller lots, pushing for even more street interaction than what is already there. Pushing for more ground floor opportunity so there are many storefronts on a block rather than a couple and rewarding height rather than shunting it. We can't completely blame the developers themselves, it's also the city’s policies.
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