Again. I'm not going to get into this again. I'll say my piece and back on topic. People here seem to be height zealots with little to no concern for factors beside height. Everyone here can pretend they do care, but there many thread here where people go "ugly as hell, but at least it's tall". It's silly and a useless conversation.
Many here are simply enthusiasts and have very little interaction with the urban planning community. Suburban sprawl is bad, but the polar opposite is simply not the answer.
I suspect you will recognize this as well eventually. It took me years to get off the tall density is best density train of thought. I used to go out and fight for height at all costs too. As I delved deeper into urban planning and began studying urban planning and speaking with professionals in this field, and not the wealthy developers who care not for the blank community shown in their renders.
Majority of big developments come from massive corporations that have no interest in developing a community, nor quality design, buildings, or ones that stand the test of time. They are the Walmart of housing. A brand that takes good things, and super sizes it, and ruins everything about it.
We need housing, but there are so many other answers other than height alone. Proper zoning could meet our intensification needs while maintaining an enjoyable to live around heights. I care far more about community and living here, because I live here. Do design and architecture matter? Sure, but what the city looks like from afar, this "table top" viewpoint presented here does not matter at all. Nobody that matters looks at a city and chooses it because of architecture or design. They choose because of strong economic factors, infrastructure, transit, quality of life et cetera. Nobody who doesn't matter chooses a city for these reasons either. Families will not look at the skyline of Hamilton and think, "hey I bet this is a good city because of a variety of building heights". They care about schools, and community centres, and road safety, and traffic.
It is a small minority on here that continue to repeat over and over again this hatred of 30 storey limit. If they had made the limit 50 storeys, I'm sure we'd still hear complaints. It's just truly annoying, and accomplishes nothing. Hamilton is thriving, growing, and getting more development proposals per year than it did in 40 years. And everyone here still thinks the city is struggling because of a few storeys. It's nonsense and it's not what I come here to read about repeatedly.
If we want to talk design, talk design, if we want to talk about the floor plans, feel free. If we want to repeat for the actual 50th time some groaning about how the height limit should have been some other arbitrary number, then please, please let's move on to something more useful.
There. You all know my opinion on this. Now please, back to the building. If you have problems with the height, maybe talk about that in the policy section of the forum.
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