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Originally Posted by peanut gallery
Interesting plan. I can't think of a lot of vacant lots along that stretch, so it will be a long slow process of replacing existing buildings one-by-one. I'm trying to picture the effect a corridor of tall buildings emanating out in this direction would have on the overall skyline. As blasphemous as it might be on this site, I'm not sure I'd like it aesthetically.
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That's what I thought at first too, but the reality isn't so dramatic I don't think. For one thing, we aren't sure how tall "tall" would be in this case. I'd be very surprised if it meant 800 ft. On the other hand, with buildings like One Hawthorne going up a block and a half away, there's certainly room to go up from 65 ft., the current limit, without creating a "great wall" of tall buildings effect.
If the change even happens, I'd look for an upzoning to somewhere in the 120-400 ft range (more likely the lower end of that) and it would then just be a westward extension of the highrise neighborhood now developing to the east rather than a wall.
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