[Waye Mason]

The language I like is that you need to "sculpt" the city.

Two general planning rules. One - that adjacency is not planning - just because there is a tower does not mean you get to build a tower next door. The second is that you should plan to gradually decrease height to transition from high rise to medium to low.

If you use adjacency for planning then you are not really able to sculpt the city.

If you look at the zoning, this is area was zoned and planned to allow and encourage high rise high density toward South and SGR and Tower, through R3 zoning and height allowances, and then steps down through R2 and R2A into R1.

If this was allowed, this would be one of the few places in Halifax where you go straight from a 10 story, 140' building into a R1, single family home zone which starts in the houses facing Inglis.

And again, this is a high rise low density proposal. 52 units. A medium rise, 4-5 story building on that site would be compatible with the neighbourhood and if it had 700sf units like Southport could put 100-120 units on that site. The neighbours were not against development, they were defending the step down into the lower density and kept saying "why not build a 4-5 story condo building like is just across the street"