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Originally Posted by Jstaleness
Mid rise, so no one gets ticked off
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Well,
almost no one. I see the Heritage Trust is predictably apoplectic. Per The Herald...er, Saltwire:
"Andrew Murphy, president of the Heritage Trust of Nova Scotia, said the proposal is another example of an inappropriate addition to a heritage building. In a phone interview Monday, Murphy said the addition wouldn’t fit the context of the old architecture and is far too big.
The city’s standards say the new addition must be subordinate to the heritage building.
'Subordinate in my mind means less than, but that’s not how they’re interpreting it,”'Murphy said.
In the report, staff say the new addition won’t displace the character-defining elements of the Waverley. The addition’s uniform materials and appearance of the addition sitting behind the Waverley achieve subordination, they wrote.
Murphy said it’s good that the developer is retaining the original building but there’s a cost to that. Cities that have been well preserved like Quebec City or Paris are huge tourist destinations.
'But Halifax everyday is beginning to look more and more like Mississauga, (Ont.),' he said."
Far too big! So there. Harrumph.
PS - "Saltwire"...say, isn't that what NSPI likes to blame power outages on?