Quote: See, this logic I don't get. There are two "tall" buildings right across the street, two more next door, so this is the perfect location for another taller building? Until we approach Manhattan-like population densities, I don't think we are doing high density any favours by packing all the tall buildings right on top of each other like this. Bad planning.

Vancouver doesn't do this - in most places the tall buildings are staggered, with infill between.

^ The Metropolitan overlaps half of this lot.

But that aside, the logic that says "there is one big building here, so there should be more, right here, this block!" seems like terrible planning to me, yet pretty prevalent in Victoria.

Space the tall buildings out a bit. Even if this were proposed on Blanshard, where the theater building is, I'd be OK with it, but right next to the Wave and 860 View w/ only the SVdP center (itself 6 stories) separating it, doesn't make much esthetic sense to me, and its bad for the current occupants of nearby buildings.

Those two buildings are 8 and 10-storeys tall (Wave's 13-storey portion is set very far back from the Emaar property). So whether the towers are 10 or 25 storeys it won't make much of a difference to people living in either of those lowrise buildings.

^ I think the choice is between 4 storey infill and something taller.

But even so, I don't understand your argument - a 25 storey building is very different than a 10 storey building if you live less than 50 m from it.

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