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Originally Posted by McKellarDweller
The low floor condos here will be *dark* when the sun hibernates for Ottawa’s dismal winters. I absolutely despise these depressing, wide, stumpy highrises in the urban canyons of Centretown and Lowertown.
Can’t wait for this era of the 2000s-2020s multi-residential high rise development in Ottawa to be over.
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It doesn't end until the NIMBY's and the NCC stop fighting tooth and nail over height. Ottawa doesn't have hundreds of empty parking lots downtown like Calgary or Edmonton, space is very limited here at this time. Tunney's Pasture and Lebreton Flats have taken generations to open up for densification. To achieve densification targets with the currently available land, we either build Vancouver style with human scale podiums and tall slender towers, or we build full block slabby 23-29 story towers with no space in between.