Among other reasons…
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Clearly a well thought out urban center will have a collection of different height buildings and public spaces. Agreed that you can’t have every parcel built to a maximum height. That would be dystopian in lived experience. What a well thought out city center doesn’t have is a collection of surface lot parking.
I fully support appropriate height rezoning, and parcels that get it should have a deadline for submitting for permitting. I wouldn’t suggest a short 1-2 year window for it, but a project should be officially initiated within 5-7 years IMO. If they don’t make the timeline, then they lose the rezoning and have to start all over again. If a developer isn’t going to leverage what the rezoning provides them, then they should stop wasting the city’s time as a mechanism to just line their pockets because the city just made the land more valuable. Also, if a developer is rezoning to a certain height, then they should at least come close to maximizing it. For example, if they get 30 floors in a successful rezoning, then they should be building 25-30, not 15-20.
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I wish the live feed cam would either zoom out or tilt up. I didn’t realize they had added more vertical steel since last week. Thanks for the picture!!
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Yeah exactly the same thought. So what we’re seeing is the final height. This definitely fills in the gap from this angle with a decent sized building.
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lol I noticed that too
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Posted in another thread, but this is a webcam of the other side of the project from the Science Museum.
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Wish I could chop it in half, stack it, then put housing next to it….
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I wish they’d just build something on the other half of the property instead of just a big plaza. They could’ve sold half the property to a developer and the government project would’ve paid for itself. Use the allocated money to give teachers raises across the state. But then what do I know. I’m no expert politician.
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but but but then how would they build a secret building they won’t tell us anything about with all our money???
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