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By "high-rise", you must mean 5-over-1, right? I doubt anyone's going to build an actual high rise in the suburbs.
by telotortium 4y ago
By "high-rise", you must mean 5-over-1, right? I doubt anyone's going to build an actual high rise in the suburbs.
- threeseed 4y agoWhy ? Developers are driven by what makes them money. A high rise in the middle of a popular suburb is an easy way to do that and does exist in many parts of the world.
- apozem 4y agoI mean, maybe it's a high rise. When the builder's remedy went into effect for Santa Monica, developers proposed 15- and 11-story apartment buildings [0]. There is a massive amount of demand for housing in California that is being choked by restrictive, ruinous zoning. Meeting that demand is going to take some big buildings. [0]: https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/12/120313-first-full-builders-remedy-application-filed-santa-monica https://www.planetizen.com/news/2022/12/120313-first-full-bu...
- tomtheelder 4y agoWell that's a little different as Santa Monica is already full of high rises- it's definitely a city and not a suburb.
- jedberg 4y agoThe original plan from the developer included multiple 8 story towers. But the property is right off of a major freeway and just a few minutes from 20+ story towers in San Jose, so I see no reason to hold back.
- telotortium 4y agoInteresting - I could see California cities attempting to force fairly tall towers (taller than 5-over-1s) into small areas in an attempt to prevent upzoning the rest of the SFH areas in their cities. Hopefully this will work better than the last time this strategy was attempted (housing projects in mid-20th-century USA).
- TchoBeer 4y agoI mean like, you could doubt that, but in lieu of zoning laws there isn't any reason not to.