My pithy view: The difference between 10 stories and 13 is trivial. I favor density.
Traffic/environmental is the bigger problem. Fact is, we don't have a reliably funded transit system to make people believe we can be denser without the attendant auto pollution and congestion spilling into neighborhoods that don't deserve it.
Sadly, it's a chicken-and-egg thing...density boosts transit, but without transit people can believe in, they can legitimately, IMHO, oppose that density that may, someday, cause transit to flourish.
I think we need to control car use somehow — with carrots, not sticks, hopefully — BEFORE we can ask neighbors to accept denser projects in areas that, despite the presence of Uptown businesses, are still quite residential.
Different opinions welcome; this is a gut reaction in advance of any editorial I might write for the Journal or Skyway.
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