CrestedSaguaro |
Sep 7, 2018 7:35 PM |
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Originally Posted by xymox
(Post 8306696)
Wow - here come the NIMBYs.
Anyone complaining about a 15 story building going up within 1/2 mile of dozens of others in the middle of the 5th largest city in the country needs to just pick up and move somewhere like Peeples Valley or Wickenberg. Can guarantee you no one will put up high rises there.
This project could be a great first step. Can you imagine condo towers lining the country club? Would have a neat Central Park like effect - and I would imagine it would only BOOST property values.
Crazy.
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I completely agree. We're talking 164' here, not 300'. This would be about 10' lower than Portland on the Park 2 which is not all that tall. And it's actually well within 1/2 mile of the nearest light rail station, barely even a 1/4 mile to the nearest tower which is 397'. I can walk the distance in about 8-9 minutes. Cities such as Atlanta, LA, Denver and many more cities have much taller high-rises that are spread out much further from the Downtown core than we have. I am still amazed at the pushback this city gets when proposing a mediocre 15 story tower that is not even close to comparably tall by today's standards. In any other city, this would not be much of an issue if at all. If this were 30 stories tall, I could understand a negative response. But again, we're talking 15 stories. Phoenix needs to let go of this high-rise phobia and let the progress develop as it should.
I hear so many complaints about sprawl, but then the same people complain when a project with some height and density is proposed. We can't have it both ways. This city's population continues to grow and there is no sign of it slowing down. We need more taller, denser developments. The alternative is more sprawl and more cars which we just don't need. SMH
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