Victoria and Park | 25, 36, 38 fl | Proposed

[danbrotherston]

What would make a project more palatable to me:
(...)
- no massive wall of a parking podium that hulks over the groundfloor space and the street.

I'm no fan of massive podiums. But isn't that what the cities are effectively looking for, by asking for less height at the street wall, and the taller parts of the building be set back?

And, yes, the parking, between the challenge of building deep underground parking in the region (high water table) and the parking minima (which at least Kitchener is willing to be flexible on).

Podiums can be good and bad, I mean, I think a 6 story sidewalk fronting podium is preferred over a 30 story sidewalk fronting building, and also a 30 story building with huge setbacks.

But a podium with ugly parking facade is worse than a podium with apartments above retail (which is also worse than podium which more closely mimics a natural urban streetscape)