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Originally Posted by phesto
The actual proposal (at least one concept):
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Seymour & Georgia & Richards: 2fl base
Seymour & Georgia: 5fl +roof
Richards & Georgia: 17fl +roof
Robson & Richards: 26fl visible
Any guesses as to how many sq ft in this rendering?
It would be nice if the Kingston wasn't a nail house, and agreed to sell its land in exchange for space in the new building or an equity share of it. That should work better for both sides
On an individual case level, I don't mind losing the alley (at least on the Georgia side)
I wouldn't want to lose alleys on a large scale though. Curb side trash is a smelly mess. Will the City retain the right of way, does compensation have to be paid, is this common?
Longer term alleys could be better organized where it's only slow commercial vehicles (doing deliveries at service entrance, picking up trash) or those accessing underground parking entrances, have light controlled crossings of roads synchronized with parallel roads, and make for a great network of bike or bus lanes. You lose virtually no throughput on roads, in fact there would be more road lanes available and fewer vehicles entering or exiting those lanes in the middle of moving traffic. You gain a huge network targeted for traffic faster than pedestrian but slower than cars. Bury the hydro lines, add some lighting, signal the road crossing, and ticket anything blocking the alley.
Bikes, skateboards, rollerblades, segways... imagine the possibilities. I call it the inner city seawall
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No, it's just a word game to make his statement not any less true than it is. We should have paid attention to this!
I know eh? How ridiculous some people can be in that all they do is whine about how bland all of Vancouver's tower proposals are, and then once someone experiments a little how they are immediately against it and then celebrate when they find out we are getting another bland, rectangular sea foam green box with a poorly placed non original protruding box on the side. 
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