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Originally Posted by HamiltonForward
Honestly, this City is tiring.
We could build these towers in the downtown core where they make a lot of sense but the City is hell-bent on forcing an intellectually bankrupt 30-storey height limit, and as such the only towers built above the height limit are:
- ones with pre-existing zoning (310 Frances, Royal Connaught),
- ones that the City has a financial interest in (this one), or
- ones that have to spend a fortune at the OMB/LPAT to gain approval (TV City).
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Honestly its not even the height limit. If the city actually approved the developments from all the proposals that have been placed with the city, there wouldn't be such a high demand. Hamilton lacks supply and yet they deny hundreds if not thousands of proposed residences downtown while approving suburbia in waterdown and other areas.
Pier 8 would bring thousands of residents, so would Corktown, Metro city, the two proposals on MacNab beside the Go and the development in Westdale, but alas the city beats around the bush and as you say with current demand and lack of supply the proposed units go to where they will be allowed. I honestly don't think it has anything to do with the height limit though. I will continue to disagree with this based on my knowledge of internal city information and from discussing with a few developers.