Blair Kamin notes in today’s Trib that the sudden recent spate of 600’+ tower proposals does have something to do with the trend towards Vancouver-esque point towers — partially thanks to the West Coast-honed tastes of Deputy Chief of Staff Sam Assefa:

“Why Vancouver? Because it offers an eminently livable model of tall, thin high-rise towers set on townhouse podiums.”

Well, sure, but the gross density of the Vancouver model towers is