The fact remains it's a curious template for density advocates to embrace. The similarity of heights and tight clustering seems woefully inhuman to me. I could easier embrace it if the number of towers were cut in half and we had more 7-10 story multi-unit buildings to replace those towers.
I made this point in the Yonge subway thread more clearly but, in short:
-These areas were always planned for significant density and were inextricably linked to the subway extension
-RH's policy framework was still in development and Markham's locked in and while both envisioned major density here, the MZOs are siginficantly more
-Both munis also sought to have substantially more jobs than are now in the MZOs
-So while it's good there will be density here, it doesn't look like it will be the right kind of density or the right mix of uses because the Province didn't require those things. It will just be a forest of condos and will likely fail to achieve good or healthy communities and will likely overwhelm Line 1, which was not the intent.
So, they took a good idea and ran it into the ground. So it seems today, anyway.