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Originally Posted by LRTfan
fantastic design....would be awesome to get something other than a flat roof skyline.
2 years ago this would have no problem passing city hall...in fact, it would have been praised.
Sadly, the NIMBYs are in control now....
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It's hard for me to not be a little resentful of Lamb for coming in and inducing an immune response in the DNA over what is still IMO an inappropriate place for the most radical new design and density in generations. He probably got CHCH for a song and liked that the neighborhood was turnkey compared to the northern core in terms of redevelopment. I'm not going to argue with the business case there but if he really sees potential in this city it would have been nice if he just spent 20 million on a surface parking lot or even used that carwash he got on Main and avoid all this NIMBY BS for himself and everyone else.
Especially if it's all for nothing and he ends up settling for the new height limit, he has cost us developments like this one on the LRT route where it makes sense, at least until there's more out of town interest once it gets under construction.