Hobart is up in arms. Our small historic city, the second oldest in Australia has just received two proposals for multistorey hotels, one of them is to be forty stories high and 210 metres tall, the other 94 metres. In a place that is renown for its quaint old buildings and where the height limit in the historic precinct is 18 metres, I can’t help but think that they are going to look very out of place and spoil it’s old world charm. You can see what the big one would look like here . Now I don't want to offend Mr Koh or the Fragrance Group and Hobart certainly needs the work, but does it have to look like every other city in the world? This is not Dubai or Singapore. Is there no international ordinance to prevent such vandalism? How does Washington DC manage? Perhaps the whole of Tasmania should be declared a heritage site. Not that we want to scare off potential investors either, but surely there other places or other ways of achieving the same ends,...
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