[Zapatan]

Originally Posted by Gordo

Um, yes, but those require special approvals. Anybody can propose a mile high skyscraper anywhere, but by-right development is controlled to be some height in basically every city. Special approvals take time/money/etc. Amazon could propose a taller building here, but they've probably concluded that it's not something that they want or need - OR - they've concluded that it would be unlikely to pass muster with the various folks needing to approve it (including citizens of the city at large), so they're not going to try.

I agree with increasing height limits, but simply abolishing them is unlikely to happen any time soon in the vast majority of cities.

I'm aware of that, but I still fail to understand the opposition to tall buildings... people need to get their priorities straight and stop damaging our cities.