I live at 77 Howard Street, on the 20th floor, north facing side, literally right across the street from this project, which will destroy my view and block our sun...up until a week ago, the land has been used as a staging area and parking lot for the construction workers for The Selby, but then along came three site office trailers, and a perimeter fence around the entire property. Today is the day I dreaded, the beginning of the end....they begun cutting down all the beautiful century old trees on the lot as the first step of site prep. Between that and the many new towers to the west of my view, built since we moved here in 2008, we’ll be in the dark most of the year, especially once they complete our first supertall, The One. I know it’s just part of life living in the city, but the population density is fast becoming far more then current infrastructure can accommodate. I’ll include a picture of the site across the street, and one of the left facing view from my 20th floor perch, to give you an idea of just how much, and how fast things are changing, and not for the better. Keep in mind, with the exception of a few, all of the top 10 tallest in the picture weren’t there 10 years ago. I’m thrilled to have so many tall building, but this, at least to me, is a great example of city planning gone horribly wrong. They’re building no extra grocery stores, malls, and other critical infrastructure to support the influx of over 20 000 new residents in only four square blocks. I can only hope they open more shops, because 2 No Frills and one Food Basics isn’t enough to feed so many people, and there are no new restaurants either, shame on city council for such irresponsible and thoughtless planning. And BTW, there are over a dozen other proposals just waiting to go up, it’s just too much in too small an area.
