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Originally Posted by Busy Bee
It ain't kosher even if the end results excite skyscraper foamers like us. The problem is the artificially low allowable buildable area in prime areas like the Lincoln Center special zoning district. If that wasn't in place they wouldn't have felt the need to waste hundreds of thousands of cubic square footage just to boost the overall height of the tower to satisfy market demands.
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What is wrong with this? It isn't illegal, or unethical. It's just taller, which angers NIMBYs.
Again, the rejected lawsuit has nothing to do with this, as it was well-established this was legal practice. There's nothing inherently bad about doing 50-foot ceiling heights instead of 5-foot ceiling heights, or including huge mechanical voids, or other height-boosting designs.