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Old 07-24-2016, 12:28 PM
 
Location: Westminster/Huntington Beach, CA
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Coastal Southern California from LA to SD was already ruined due to wilderness being paved over by track housing. I don't see the harm in replacing ugly tack housing with highrises. Ideally Southern California would have more open space in Orange County and Northern San Diego County with a few pockets of density similar to Miami Beach or Waikiki. Even medium style density that you would find in Southern Europe would be a vast improvement.
By density do you mean population density? Venice and Santa Monica are already extremely similar in terms of population density to Miami beach.

No where in coastal California needs to look like Waikiki...
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Old 07-24-2016, 02:30 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Does Waikiki need a Waikiki? Did anyone ask the Native Hawaiians before building Waikiki? No.
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Old 07-24-2016, 02:45 PM
 
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Hopefuly the HOA of these condos will include Hypothermia treatment
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Old 07-25-2016, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Earth
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Santa Monica has already turned into Waikiki.
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Old 07-25-2016, 11:30 PM
 
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the 1 percenters already own the real estate along the coast, do you think they will sell or lease to developers?
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Old 07-27-2016, 09:50 AM
 
Location: UAE
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i think California dosent need skyline building on beach
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Old 07-27-2016, 11:23 AM
 
Location: SF Bay Area
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I think it would be nice to have one or two areas like that along the coast, I don't see the big deal. Probably would work best in Long Beach since they seem to have a fair amount of high rises next to or near the beach already. But the beach and water there is kind of gross.
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Old 07-29-2016, 03:07 AM
 
Location: Tucson/Nogales
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^^

I agree, they should pick a few cities along the California coast and let them go skyward, like Santa Monica which would be ideal, given the Expo line has been extended there.

On SkyscraperPage.com I recently read of a proposed 21 story high rise in Santa Monica, first high rise since 1970, with a Gehry design to it, and you'd think, from the angry reactions of the Nimby's there, the developer was going to build a waste disposal plant!
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Old 07-29-2016, 09:10 AM
 
Location: SW MO
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Having been raised in Newport Beach in the '50s and '60s when it was far less crowded, far less rich and more pristine than it is now (the Cannery actually canned fish and wasn't condos), my vote is a resounding, "No!"
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Old 07-29-2016, 11:24 AM
 
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Despite Southern California's large dense urban areas beaches are fairly suburban.

Potential locations for high rise beach community similar to Miami Beach and Waikiki

Ventura/Oxnard: There's a large patch of farm land east of the harbor and south of downtown

Ocean Park, Marina Del Rey:

Long Beach/Belmont Shores:

Huntington Beach

San Diego: Mission Bay/Mission Beach, Coronado Island if they sold the Naval Base.
No we don't; we don't need to copy anyone's style of beachfront.
We are a major metropolis and the beach is one small aspect vs. the cities you're comparing to.

I'm not a fan of Waikiki - just a bunch of high end stores and Miami beach is fun but a little cheesy too.
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