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Originally Posted by logan5
Interesting fact from a Daily Hive article on this project -
I wonder if that design preference actually accomplished anything.
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It was a point of amusement not that long ago on these forums.
The idea that Vancouver set a height limit for tower proposals in that area based on a tower that was not even within their municipal boundaries - even while Burnaby, where the Boot sits, has no such height limitations in the immediate vicinity of it (as shown by this project)* and would happily welcome 50, 60 storey towers.
(*the caveat of course being that the Boot sits right next to Burnaby's lone viewcone protecting the view to Central Park from Northern Burnaby.
But as these towers sit just outside that viewcone along with the Boot, they're under no viewcone height restriction.)
And since they also happen to sit within the designated Metrotown "Downtown" core allowing for density, it means you could have a cluster of very tall towers straddling Central Park on one side of the boundary, while on the Vancouver side you have pockets of much shorter towers that are height restricted by a tower that's not even visible anymore since it's dwarfed by all the neighbouring (Burnaby) towers.
It's truly bizarre.
....and sort of funny.
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