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SoWhat Condo Towers block Views
You can't see it, but my home is hidden behind the center condo tower in Sam's Visual Post Title.
I know, I can't be a nimby. Losing views is part of living in this wonderful city. What rights do I have?
Now just imagine an additional 56 condo towers with some even higher up to 325ft than the 250 ft shown, that is possible just in the central district of SoWhat itself. Triple that for the areas south and north of the central district of SoWhat and you get "SoWhat" to the rest of us living in the city.
Now add in the fact that there are over $170MILLION dollars of unfunded transportation projects for SoWhat that won't even hardly make a dent in the traffic problems when SoWhat is built out. This is another "SoWhat" to our citizens of the city. But we have the tram that solves all as it sways over our homes to deliver OHSU employees from a 1200 car parking lot built right on our Willamette River. "SoWhat" that this is a violation of the city/states Greenway regulations.
"SoWhat", we all like density of this magnitude. Right? "SoWhat" to the consequences, and there are many more I could list.