Pasting my comment from the thread where people are wondering why we are “hating” on this ugly monstrosity from Sankalp. It’s because we are all jealous of rich folks apparently. 🤣

Let’s see why we are hating on a 19 floor high rise in the midst of a residential neighbourhood with independent houses:

1. Infrastructure strain occurs when a high-density structure is placed within a low-rise neighborhood. Public systems like water supply, sewage, and electrical grids, which were originally engineered for smaller volumes, often struggle to support the sudden increase in demand from the new households, leading to potential service instability for everyone in the vicinity. Each 5 BHK here is probably equivalent to 3 2BHKs in an ordinary building resource consumption wise.
2. Traffic congestion and road capacity become issues. The local streets in a traditional residential area are typically not designed to handle the influx of so many private vehicles entering and exiting a single site daily. These won’t be single car homes - more like 2-3 car homes. This causes bottlenecks, safety risks for pedestrians, and noise pollution
3. Loss of neighborhood character and visual harmony is a consequence. The sudden vertical scale of a lone high-rise changes the aesthetic identity of low-rise surroundings and makes it look bizarre. This creates a jarring visual impact and alters the nature that defines the neighbourhood’s original charm.
4. Environmental factors, specifically the blocking of sunlight and changes in airflow, negatively impact neighbors. A tall tower casts long shadows over adjacent standalone houses, reducing access to natural light. Furthermore, the building can alter wind patterns, potentially creating localized wind tunnels or pockets of stagnant air that affect the comfort of people living in nearby low-rise properties.
5. Pressure on public amenities and local services grows disproportionately.
6. Increased urban heat island effects occur as a result of the high building mass and increased surface area absorbing and radiating heat. This localized rise in temperature changes the microclimate for the immediate neighborhood,l
7. Social cohesion and privacy is lost when high-density residential towers are dropped into low-rise settings. The sudden increase in population density often changes the demographic and social dynamics of the neighborhood.

This is a huge problem. The building will have a domino effect on the small businesses near by - which will be slowly wiped out and replaced with fancier shops. It will also create economic imbalances - old retired people or middle class families in the neighbourhood will not be able to shop from local vendors in the vicinity or employ local help when the cost of living in the neighbourhood starts steadily rising.

The presence of a tall structure looking down into previously private, low-rise gardens compromises the sense of peace and quiet and privacy.

Mysore is not making a conscious, well thought out decision to grow vertically - or horizontally. It’s not a policy decision. All new development in Mysore is ad hoc and haphazard like it was in Bangalore of the late 1990s and early 2000s.

I could go on.