Good Day! I am writing to say I don’t want any highrises in Dowtown Guelph. Lots of people move to Guelph to get away from the GTA and don’t want to see too many highrises like in Brampton – Mississauga – Toronto. Guelph has a nice quaint small town feel and please keep it that way. In the downtown Guelph would be better off going with midrise condos with a heritage look. Guelph’s downtown is unique and having high rises (even on the fringes of the downtown) would ruin it. Paris France has been successful with creating reasonably high densities with six story buildings. Highrises should be outside the downtown in the suburban fringes. They should be discrete and limited in number. Please don’t ruin the city like some of the cities to the west and east.
A word of warning that if you allow highrises in Downtown Guelph you will wreck the very thing that has attracted people to the area. So please have some foresight and work hard to preserve the small town feel of the area. BV