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Originally Posted by J.OT13
If they compromise with 16/18, might as well build the 27. If the City rejects it, Mastercraft-Starwood can go get a rubber stamp at LPAT.
Honestly, if a developer wants to build a high-rise, buy land where high-rises are allowed. They only needed to purchase something a few blocks north.
We need a mix of housing; skyscrapers, high-rises, mid-rises and low-rises, so why is it such a bad thing to have zoning restrictions. Zoning exists to create step-backs from tall towers on the O-Train Line to the more human scale Richmond. This isn't the 2000s when the City just about only allowed 12 floors outside downtown. Zoning ahs opened up significantly since then. There are options for developers without having to get into expensive fights with the City and existing residents.
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They have land where high rises were as per the official plan supposed to be allowed, and NO purchasing a few blocks north would not have got them high density land.
Going farther north would result in less allowed density because again the city didn't properly implement the hub designation around mass transit stations. The nearest land that's not gov/city owned that would allow high density as of right is a couple of km away.
Or did you forget Leiper also opposed the only other possible high density in the area, that being 335 roosevelt ave which was reduced to a mere 14 stories.
The "Mix" comes from the rest of the land kitchissippi, and allowing high density within 300m of mass transit will not ruin it. What it might ruin is Nimby's idea of having there personal village sitting on top of billions of dollars worth of city infrastructure.
Lastly, what zoning was a decade ago is irrelevant to a discussion to what it should be at this site, Ottawa is a city get used to it.
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