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Old Posted Aug 10, 2015, 5:01 PM
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Originally Posted by BodomReaper View Post
Well there's Marine Gateway, where the UDP rejected not 1, but 2 highly innovative designs - only to end up with a pair of Vancouver Special towers marking the entrance to the city.

Plus there are smaller examples like 1819 West 5th:

Pre-UDP


Post-UDP


Both pics from Changing City Book.
I suspect the other thing that happened was that the owner had the structural plans costed. and was like
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