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Originally Posted by Metro-One
The intended meaning is that having such towers in Burquitlam while much of the downtown peninsula is capped below 150 metres is very odd when look at the region as a whole.
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Yes, it does seem fairly random at first glance. It seems that the non-originally city municipalities (e.g. Coquitlam, not Port Moody/Port Coquitlam, Burnaby not Vancouver, Richmond and Surrey, not Ladner, White Rock) didn't have much of an existing downtown to build around, so they've gone into a pattern of allowing high towers to be built in their designated downtown areas without facing much (or at least as much) opposition because there wasn't the same entrenched existing non-high rise development to compete with and what there was in the way of existing development is so grim (e.g. in Burquitlam) that it is hard to imagine anyone devoting much effort to preserving it.
Burquitlam is an interesting case, in that such an enormous number of towers, including quite tall ones have been approved and moved into construction before more than a few shorter ones were completed. By the time anyone really appreciates the scale of what is coming, it will be too late to stop much of it (not that I want to stop it, but I'm thinking of the typical pattern of local opposition).