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Concern about housing density; architects, engineers cite lack of policy vision and regulation
INCREASING demand for housing in the city, coupled with a reviving economy, has given rise to a proliferation of multi-storey buildings across Kingston and St Andrew, but architects and engineers are warning that it could all lead to doom.
As it stands now, they said, there is no structure to the location of mid- and high-rise buildings, particularly those for residential purposes.
“It's good that the density has increased so that the city can start to look like a modern city, but the question is: Are these areas zoned for high-rise buildings? Is it time for the Golden Triangle to be rezoned, for example? We need to have a serious discussion about it because what is happening right now is disorderly and haphazard,” a former president of the Jamaican Institute of Architects (JIA) told the Jamaica Observer in a recent interview.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/
INCREASING demand for housing in the city, coupled with a reviving economy, has given rise to a proliferation of multi-storey buildings across Kingston and St Andrew, but architects and engineers are warning that it could all lead to doom.
As it stands now, they said, there is no structure to the location of mid- and high-rise buildings, particularly those for residential purposes.
“It's good that the density has increased so that the city can start to look like a modern city, but the question is: Are these areas zoned for high-rise buildings? Is it time for the Golden Triangle to be rezoned, for example? We need to have a serious discussion about it because what is happening right now is disorderly and haphazard,” a former president of the Jamaican Institute of Architects (JIA) told the Jamaica Observer in a recent interview.
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/
Paul Marin -19 is one thing, 20 is a whole other matter. It gets even worse if they win the UCL. *groan*. 
05/18/2011.MU fans naah cough, but all a unuh a vomit?-Lazie 1/11/2015