City to limit sixth Square Children tower
I love this. Since it won’t include any social housing, there’s no need for the sixth tower at Square Children to have more than four floors, so the city’s going to limit its permit for that building to exactly four floors.
Blork 08:56 on 2022-09-16 Permalink
I will never get used to “Square Children.”
Joey 10:44 on 2022-09-16 Permalink
Am I reading this wrong (have not been following this saga) or is the city punitively restricting the size of this building because the asshole developers won’t meet them partway on funding “affordable” housing? As a result, the growing downtown area will lose out on, what, dozens of new housing units – how does this help alleviate the housing crisis? Seems like a major missed chance to increase the supply in that area.
Kate 11:56 on 2022-09-16 Permalink
Not saying there isn’t a smidge of retaliation here, but it’s not great if the city rolls over to any demand by developers either.
Tim 12:56 on 2022-09-16 Permalink
Let’s see if the action gets the city sued again. My search turned up nothing, but I remember discussing a lawsuit here on the board years ago that appeared to come about when the city retaliated against a company who used a clause in a contract to buy out the affordable housing which they were supposed to build. I’m guessing the lawsuit is still before the courts.