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Originally Posted by Jstaleness
From The Burnside News
HRMbyDesign is a priority initiative that takes direct aim at these issues. “HRMbyDesign’s densification strategy and Neighbourhood Greenprint will ensure many more people will be living and working sustainably in our urbanized core,” says Andy Fillmore, HRM’s Urban Design Project Manager. “The recently adopted Downtown Plan will mean that a walkable, beautiful, mixed-use downtown in conjunction with a streamlined new development approval process will draw future growth downtown rather than to suburban and rural areas.”
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If the downtown were built as displayed in the HRMby Design documents then it might lead to beautification of the downtown core but I don't see how introducing such severe height controls is going to lead to densification of the downtown core. Such height controls will drive up rents and condo prices and could very well have the opposite effect. This is a question of architectural ideology versus economics. I am afraid that economics will trump architectural ideology. If the aim was to densify the downtown core then higher buildings should have been allowed. Here is a map (page 6 & 7) of height limits in the downtown core:
http://www.halifax.ca/capitaldistrict/documents/APPENDIXAMAPS.pdf .
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