New York City Citizens Campaign Against Heights

A sticker by Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation showing planned new Related building, center, superimposed on Village waterfront at Superior Ink site. At right is Westbeth artists complex. At left is apartment building constructed in late 1990s in a contextual style to resemble an old Village industrial building.

A good point is raised about rich developers getting zoning exceptions for "hardship" in the article, "Super-sizing is unhealthy for Village’s waterfront."

"Here’s a question: How can Related Companies — developers of the enormous AOL Time Warner Center at Columbus Circle, who, according to their own promotional materials, have a property portfolio worth over $10 billion — be suffering an economic hardship trying to develop a piece of our waterfront? While the assertion flies in the face of basic logic, this is exactly what Related is claiming, and how they may well “super-size” not only this development, but potentially our entire waterfront."

Check out the article for more.
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Some of the same issues are happening in Baltimore (and of course in DC). For more on Baltimore, check this out (although the link isn't working at the moment, will test it later) from the Baltimore City Paper (which is ten times better than the Washington City Paper, as it actually writes about important stuff):

Height Matters The yellow signs, shaped like an arrow pointing down, appeared around Mount Vernon last week, in storefront doorways and on North Charles Stree3/2/2005 - In NEWS+FEATURES