10-31-2017, 08:41 AM
I'd say that someone is always going to be upset (understandably) about this, but that they should not be heeded. Inevitably, either a tall building like this is someone's neighbour, or else the neighbour needs to be redeveloped into a slightly less tall building, and their neighbour into a slightly less tall building, and so on until finally a building only marginally larger than the first undisturbed neighbour is the final result in some series of stepdowns. But no, Victoria is part of highway 7, right near the transit hub, right near 85, near so many things: this is exactly where density goes, and indeed it is probably why the homes on Ellen St. there are cheaper than homes buried deeper away from Victoria. And I'm sorry, but this isn't a neighbourhood destroyed by density, it is in fact peppered with several massively tall buildings that add to the vibrancy of the area by providing people, providing reasons to beef up public spaces that these two no doubt enjoy.