06-10-2016, 05:34 PM
(06-10-2016, 10:32 AM)Spokes Wrote: Interesting article discussing the need for design guidelines on new "tall" buildings. Only over 9 floors though. So anything less can be designed however the builder wants?
http://www.therecord.com/news-story/6714...nsitivity/
And councilor Etherington taking at stab at Waterloo
Quote:But Coun. Frank Etherington doesn't want Kitchener to imitate the kind of development that has cropped up in neighbouring Waterloo, where highrises densely crowd along a stretch of King Street between University Avenue and Columbia Street.
"I think we definitely need some pretty solid rules. The last thing I want to see happening is what you see at the top end of Waterloo, which is hideous, all of those terrible-looking student housing buildings. They look atrocious," said Etherington, who represents a downtown ward.
I was quite taken aback by Etherington's comment. We all know why those buildings look like they do and those circumstances do not relate to Kitchener. Given that, to throw it up as the kind of thing Kitchener needs to avoid because it's not good enough for us seemed gratuitous and unseemly to me. Even ii what he said was true, it was not necessary to say it. I would have expected better of him.