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Old Posted Jan 10, 2017, 5:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Austinlee View Post
General question: How did all of these highrise condo towers get built on the hill overlooking downtown and the bay at all with all the NIMBY BS?

NIMBYs didn't really organize and get height limits passed until after the skyscraper boom of the 1970s. Those buildings were all built before then. Of the five tallest ones, three are from the 1960s, and two are from the 1920s.

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