Halifax councillor wants city staff to look at eliminating drive-thrus

Height limits are not the same as forbidding tall development. High limits vary based on location. They encourage tall development in urban cores where they can be considered appropriate and help protect less dense neighbourhoods from wildly out of scale developments. Why have dysfunctional neighbourhoods of single family homes surrounding one or two skyscrapers, when with reasonable height limits you can enforce more context-sensitive low-rise and mid-rise intensification. A well designed street is a public space that the human mind subconsciously perceives as a room, with walls, a floor, and a ceiling. People subconsciously dislike when they can’t easily perceive the tops of buildings, because it ruins the illusion of a street ceiling, it takes a beloved shopping street and makes it less cosy, both metaphorical and literal given the downdraft created by skyscrapers that aren’t adequately set back on podiums.

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