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Don’t block my view! Some of the strongest critics of Boston’s bid to revitalize its struggling downtown with new skyscrapers also enjoy some of the most breathtaking vistas

How is it that the staunchest opponents of new towers in downtown Boston happen to live in luxury high-rises themselves?

That’s our question after reading the public comments on new city regs that would allow skyscrapers up to 700 feet tall in some parts of downtown Boston.

The owner of a $13 million-plus condo in the Millennium Tower near Downtown Crossing didn’t beat around the bush in comments submitted to city planning officials.

“I paid extra for the view on the southwest side,” the life sciences exec wrote. “We do not want downtown to turn into a tasteless canyon of high rises.”

Ok!

The owner of a $6 million condo in the 60-story Millennium Tower argued that raising height limits “will lead to luxury towers, even less affordable housing, no sense of community and damage historic structures and the fabric of Downton Crossing.”

And still another high-rise condo owner, who lives at 45 Province St., a 33-story tower, wants all new buildings in the area capped at 150 feet, or roughly half that height, to “preserve the historic character of Boston's downtown neighborhood.”

And while it’s not clear what building this Park Square resident lives in, we’re betting her digs didn’t come cheap.

“Building housing that tall will positively obliterate my view and decrease the value of my property,” wrote one woman who only identified herself as “Judith.”

Some condo owners at the Millennium Tower are worried that new high-rises could block their views.

Anthony Pangaro, a top real estate developer and architect whose credits include the above-mentioned Millennium Tower, has emerged as a leading voice against the city’s new building height rules for downtown Boston.

In a response to questions from Contrarian Boston, Pangaro said it would be “too easy” and “simplistic” to ascribe the opposition to new downtown towers as the work of wealthy condo owners seeking to protect their turf.

Opposition and concern range well beyond high-rise condo owners to many other downtown residents and groups.

“There is a more broad and universal concern about Boston Common and the Public Garden, and the character of the downtown neighborhoods that is uniquely Boston,” Pangaro wrote in an email.

Still, not everyone has such a charitable interpretation of the motives of critics of the city’s push for a bevy of new residential towers downtown.

“We have a handful of folks that are more concerned about their views out their own high-rise windows than the investment this district desperately needs,” wrote one Downtown Crossing resident. “That is selfish at best.”

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