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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
i'm always a bit amazed at suburban toronto's appetite for tall towers. you have so many areas of SFH's and then there will be a cluster of 30+ story towers looming over the houses at the end of the street.
https://www.google.com/maps/@43.7708...7i16384!8i8192
that kinda things would just not ever fly in suburban chicago. i don't understand how there isn't more NIMBY push-back against it in toronto. in 99% of suburban chicagoland, highrise/skyscraper proposals are so unilaterally DOA that they are hardly ever even proposed in the first place.
across the thousands of sq. miles that constitute suburban chicagoland, there are only like 20 buildings that rise above 200', and most of those are clustered in a small handful of places like downtown evanston and schaumburg, whereas in suburban toronto you have hundreds upon hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of such buildings.
it's a really interesting phenomenon from my perspective. |
There's a lot of funny examples around South Florida. How do you think these single family home owners felt about their new neighbor (there were lawsuits):
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.9573...7i16384!8i8192
(in this case the historic single family neighborhood is out of place)
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7565...7i16384!8i8192
this one upset some people:
https://www.google.com/maps/@25.7523...7i16384!8i8192