Higher Buildings Policy Review - 2026/2027

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Downtown Vancouver looks proportionally too short compared to the North Shore mountains (looking from QE Park perspective). If we are trying to create a good balance of cityscape to mountain scape, you would allow towers to perspectively go halfway up the mountains. With Grouse and Seymour both being around 1200 meters tall, you could have towers 300 meters plus to reach that ratio. The roofline of Vancouver's tallest tower, Shangri-La, sits at around the 300 meter mark of the North Shore mountains, so there is plenty of room to go taller.