Article covering the public meeting.
“You have the Urban Design Guidelines, and that’s size. But there’s also issues around the quality of these buildings, especially if you’re on a main street like Queen, which has a certain character and has a pedestrian kind of experience with its small stores and not something that’s the same all the way along,” said Chadwick.
Again and again, NIMBYs focus on height when they should be agitating for better ground level design. Up to a certain point, height is never as much of an issue as people imagine it's going to be and concerns about precedent are overblown because this site and the Summerville site are unusually large and at a main intersection. There aren't really any spaces in the Beach itself that are able to accommodate something of this scale. And because the Beachers want their area preserved in amber, locations like this need to do some heavier lifting.
