3030 St. Joseph Blvd | 66m | 18f | U/C

[1overcosc]

While I don't like spot rezonings to accomodate specific projects, I've long maintained that a truly exceptional project that shows extraordinary commitment to the urban realm by the developer can justify one. This is one of those cases.

The choice of sidewalk-oriented small space retail probably won't make the developer as much profit as a large car-oriented big box space retail could, so the developer already made a sacrifice in the interest of making the area better. My worry is that if the NIMBYs force a height reduction, that sacrifice disappears to make the numbers work.