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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
I wonder when/if the shadow restrictions are going to become a hindrance to growth downtown. Obviously it's a ways off if ever but you'd have to imagine as Calgary grows we'll start to see towers that dwarf The Bow as that has dwarfed the once massive, Calgary Tower.
/Random thought from someone who is fairly ignorant about these things.
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I'd guess that the shadow restriction doesn't become a factor in limiting growth until all those parking lots between ninth and tenth get developed.
It would be really interesting though to see a calculation of the maximum capacity of the downtown core based on the shadow bylaw, and see how much room for growth there is, both in developing all the unused/parking lot surfaces, as well as demolishing small, unremarkable office buildings and replacing them with ones that max out their height restrictions.