maestro
Senior Member
Size of the apartments being built have little to do with allowable density or height limits. It's entirely consumer driven. Also, developer don't build huge for the sake of building huge. In their minds, the smaller, the quicker to get in and out and the less overall risk. They esssentially build huge to recoup the cost of the land and more allowable density usually amounts to a higher land cost. Less planning restrictions likely won't lower costs significantly.
I also fail to see how building 40 storey towers is the only way to increase density as does not replacing a 2 storey structure with a 6 storey structure do the same? Wouldn't building intermediary midrises over finite skyscrapers also represent more organic growth? It's all well and good to talk about transit but no one is willing to provide the tens of billions needed to build a capable sysytem to replace cars (if one such exists). Our downtown road infrastructure is pretty much built at it's maximum and neither is it an island with $6 toll bridges connecting it to the rest of the city. Traffic is seriously consideration.
I also fail to see how building 40 storey towers is the only way to increase density as does not replacing a 2 storey structure with a 6 storey structure do the same? Wouldn't building intermediary midrises over finite skyscrapers also represent more organic growth? It's all well and good to talk about transit but no one is willing to provide the tens of billions needed to build a capable sysytem to replace cars (if one such exists). Our downtown road infrastructure is pretty much built at it's maximum and neither is it an island with $6 toll bridges connecting it to the rest of the city. Traffic is seriously consideration.
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