Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2024/06/12/brand-new-ten-story-tokyo-condo-to-be-demolished-for-blocking-mt-fuji-view.html
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… the view is still there, we just have to go to the new building to see it 
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I guess I didn’t realize that NIMBYs were a global phenomenon…
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I wonder if there was a specific person or organization that objected.
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My thoughts exactly.
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What a waste
SMH
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Sekisui House is one of the largest property developers in Japan, so this isn’t going to put them out of business. I think that they opted to take the loss and get some free PR instead of risking the reputational damage of blocking Mt. Fuji.
Note: Japanese law does require builders to consider potential damage to views, but it would appear that they were in compliance with the law.
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I know the preferred practice in Japan is to tear down buildings and replace them when they’re no longer useful, but this seems a bit aggressive
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In a surprise move the building will be replaced with a Lawson store.
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related, I think
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Replace it with a big beautiful wall paid for by Mexicans.
Japan has quite elaborate rules on building, covering things like floor area to ground area, height (number of floors), the neighbours’ rights to sunlight, and even the provision of satellite dishes and the hedges fronting the plot. (I know about this because my wife and I bought a plot and built a house in Kanagawa in the late 2000s.)
The most important, completely unwritten rule, is that you have to fit in with and get along with your local community.
I’m quite surprised the Sekisui condo got to the stage of being built and then knocked down. I would have thought the planners would consider the implications of their design at an earlier stage.
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Fuyō-hō is an active stratovolcano. It just might do that all on its own.
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They could try lowering those streets…
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Did you just fire up the @wazroth signal?
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We may need a new bingo card, it’s true.
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Coming from a British perspective, I’d expect that:
(a) The city would consider the impact of the condo on views of Mount Fuji before allowing it to be built.
(b) There would be height limits in force to protect views of Mount Fuji, and this condo would exceed the maximum height allowed for the site.
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It’s nothing a sufficiently large water curtain wouldn’t fix.
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My View is Being Blocked Bingo
Ancient Lights doctrine
Water curtain
Raise the blocked object
Raise the viewing area/s
Lower the blocking object
“Why hasn’t the local government fixed this?”
Build object to block the view from pestiferous tourists/spite fence
Provide a large tv screen showing the blocked object
Sic the HOA on 'em
Sic the government on 'em
Demolish the blocking object
“What kind of idiot would build this RIGHT HERE?!” - Free Space
Dedicated tourist viewing area
Letters to the editor
Hire lawyers
“I just don’t want anyone else to go through something like this.”
Limit tourist viewing times
All seating arranged so no one can see out the window/s with the best view
Ring the local electricity board, only to be told, “This really has got nothing to do with us.”
Whinge online
“Can’t you just settle this yourselves?”
REVENGE!!!
Malicious compliance
“Good thing it all worked out in the end.”
Hire a Samurai*
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