I'm not sure about major complaint(s) of people, but I can see why city planners would be upset. City planners use height restrictions or FARs (floor area ratio

I'm not sure about major complaint(s) of people, but I can see why city planners would be upset. City planners use height restrictions or FARs (floor area ratio) as a bargaining chip to get what they want: usually things like more affordable housing or plazas the public can use. Real estate developers going after bonus height or FARs is evidence that there is more demand to build upward than what zoning laws allow. Loopholes such as large vacant mechanical spaces, make bonus height restrictions or FARs less valuable, and hence city planners are less likely to get the things they want out of real estate developers. That the city is willing to provide bonus height or FARs is also showing how these height restrictions aren't based on any pressing concrete objective; the only one I know of is by the FAA: "the Federal Aviation Administration sets a building height of 2,000 feet in most U.S. cities to make commercial flights safer"[0]. In addition, while extracting more affordable housing out of "greedy" real estate developers is politically popular, it is questionable whether this is the most cost effective way to provide more affordable housing. [0] https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/04/08/worlds-tallest-buildings-why-america-isnt-building-them/3160931002/ https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2019/04/08/worlds-tal...