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Originally Posted by steyin
I didn't say I personally wanted it to be scaled down, I just said that the towers could probably be a little shorter to try to appease the community. Yes that would result in fewer affordable units, but that would have to be the compromise everyone would be willing to accept if the height is such an issue. As for the schools (which is great that they are incorporating them), given the number of seats being provided versus the size of the neighborhood and influx of potential new families occupying the building, I personally don't feel they are enough. If you're going to give a community amenities within a development that's all good of course, but at the same I feel it should be proportionate to the existing density of the neighborhood and what you're adding to it.
As for my "wishy-washy" post, I was merely projecting my feelings as a native architect on development in general. If you don't want to engage in a conversation about such topics that's fine (nor is this the thread for that), but outright dismissing my view/opinion kind of goes back to the point RobEss was making. I like hearing all sides in any given argument/topic of discussion as it helps to refine my views and vice versa, but when one ignores the other it's just ignorant.
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That’s the problem with the protesters. Scaling down “a little” would not be enough for them. I doubt they’d think a twenty story tower is fine either. They want quiet and quaint...in downtown Brooklyn, a borough of 2.5 million and in the largest city in the country with a dozen train and rail lines around. That is ridiculous.
They are in the wrong. There should never be a need for a compromise with a side that is clearly in the wrong. None of their houses are being demolished. They are not being forced out. No one is being displaced. It all boils down to them not liking new, tall buildings across the street from them. It does not jeopardize them or their lives in anyway.
And as for your claim that we don’t allow all sides to speak. What do you or Robess think you are doing right now? You are expressing your opinion and in a forum like this, when you offer your opinion you should also expect someone to have the right to take you on your opinion as well. Did you want to offer your opinion and get only praises?
And yes, this is not quite the thread for this important topic and NYGuy will let us all know it soon enough. If it goes on any longer, it will all get deleted by him anyway. Been through this many times before. Spent lots of time writing and thoughts only to have it all deleted but that’s a different topic for a different time.