High-rises can make great options in areas where they fit with the scale. I am not anti high-rise (in general). I am definitely pro mid-rise and that’s the type of neighborhood I would choose to live in and did choose to live in (my neighborhood is actually single and two families). I also wouldn’t stick a bunch of single, or multi-family homes next to high-rises, because it just doesn’t make sense.

My point is we don’t have to jam high-rises everywhere. We can pick and choose which buildings get built and where so we can appropriately plan the city growth. That’s the whole point of city planning…or so I thought. Maybe that’s not why we have city planning. Maybe everyone should just build whatever they want wherever they want with no regard for city planning and the millions spent on the overall planning so far and then we can just get rid of the city planning department entirely - and let the market decide, whatever that means. I guess in that case I don’t understand why we have a planning department.