(06-01-2021, 03:42 PM)adjlar Wrote: Building height and density are often dependent on how transit supportive the site is. Downtown Kitchener has the transit infrastructure (ION, GO, VIA) in place to support developments of this magnitude and Cambridge will soon too once GO service to Guelph & the ION arrive. I guess it's just tough for me to picture a development of this scale in that location for the time being.
I see. Well, the traffic studies are available a few posts previously. A project of this size will not stress the street or public transport infrastructure. This has been surprisingly one well researched project proposed - due to how professional the developer/architects are who are involved - so that has all been taken into consideration. I think the general public really underestimates how much research goes into projects like these. For example, if a building casts just 1 meter of shadow on Grandma Sue's window a little too long, they think about how to change that, since the goal isn't to annoy neighbours, it's to build something. Likewise, all the traffic studies have shown that there should not be any problems with this and that shadow casting would be very short etc.
Cambridge Times reached out to the community recently about it and most of the public seemed to be okay with things. They were unsure of how well very tall buildings would look next to the Grand River (spoiler, really damn good lol), and most responses seemed to be YIMBYs: yes it's quite a change, but a good one, so build it.