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Those are certainly things for prospective buys or renters to consider but not really that relevant to people like us who are critiquing it from a planning perspective. They can decide for themselves if the advantages outweigh any disadvantages. It's also pretty clear that given the building angles and space that does exist, very few if any units will lack light or views entirely, while given the number of towers on the rest of the peninsula, there are inevitably some units there with reduced levels of those things. For most of the buildings including on lower levels, there will be views that are partially obstructed but that still offer glimpses between other structures.
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This is more silly justification. Buyers and renters aren't developers or are vacancies anywhere near a buyers or renters market. Both parties are at the whim of developer and their products. The market already has too much emphasis over experts in planning policies after 9 years of Trudeau's open arm policies. While skyscraperpage concentrates on solving the housing crisis, it's only one of dozens of crises brought on by the number of people, temp and permanent piling in to our cities. Anyways, I can't think of a more dytopian potential letting developers, buyers and, sellers determining the shape of an urban area of millions. Dubai which is housing masterplans completely separated by high ways comes to mind or Houston with sprawl on an unfathomable scale and inner city intensifcation where every square inch of property is built over in ridiculous townhome configurations. The Oak Ridge Morraine would be tract housing if left to taxpayers.
Just because the 10,000s of absolutely soul crushing units built in Toronto and the rest of Canada have low vacancy doesn't mean the residents are happy living in them or, about raising children in non family apartments. IIRC, That Vancouver blogger that went viral over raising kids in a fashionable Coal Harbour one bedroom moved out for a house.
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