[bartlebooth]

It's great that you're proactively looking for input from people in the community before putting pen to paper (so to speak).

For me, I'd love to see that you really push the idea of TOD. This probably requires some risk given Ottawa's car obsessed nature, but too many developers claim a project is TOD without making much effort to really do it (good connection to transit, good street level interaction for humans - not cars, reduced parking for private vehicles, family sized units as mentioned above etc...).

From a design perspective, it's difficult to articulate what should occur because we don't know the site but it'd be great to see a bold statement from an architecture firm that isn't located in Ottawa. I'd love to see you push the status quo. At the end of the day, you're proposing a massive building that will impact the city for a damn long time. It'd be fun to see something out of the ordinary. If someone came to visit this city for the first time, would they want to go see your building?