pkraehli's challenge is:

Protection of lower scale townscape an important component of the heritage context of the area. The building ‘higher is better’ craze to address the current over-development housing crisis will result in a sterile sameness everywhere in the downtown. The owner of 137 Norfolk pleaded to the current provincial government to allow a 10 storey building to be constructed on their 50 by 100 foot lot. This was permitted and then un-permitted within the past year. The proposed heritage district should include the lower profile buildings along Norfolk and Woolwich up to the 5 points intersection, i.e., provision of an interesting consistent visual context