BLAH has been staying out of the bun fight in Vancouver’s Mount Pleasant over building heights at Broadway+Kingsway… 

…partly because the BLAH categories seem to have been lost or diminished in the process, one by one…

…live/work? no. art space? gone. architecture? dismissed. height? reduced. housing? reduced+no rental or non-market…

…all they need to do is turn the bike storage into car parking to increase BLAH’s dismay!

So less than enthusiastic, but an endorsement nonetheless…

Vocal tower-phobic critics have limited the supply of transit-oriented development…

…If prices rise, it is limited supply that is to blame, not large scale development.

simple formula: many homes x many storeys = many different people sharing mount pleasant.

there are ONLY 3 sites possible for tall buildings (if 19 storeys even qualifies as tall).

…This does NOT mean “more tall glass towers throughout Mount Pleasant!”

http://www.rize.ca/developments/work/kingsway-broadway#

http://www.actonostry.ca/news/rize-rezoning/

http://www.rampvancouver.com/item/280/start-here-rezoning-at-kingsway-broadway-10th-and-watson-st/

http://www.braunallison.com/blog/2012/02/why-nimbys-could-be-calling-the-shots-on-how-our-city-is-planned-and-built/