Ouch! That's a big loss to the local trees and critters and humans.

And no one seems to talk about the loss of vistas. There was a defunct gas station in Portland near me that got replaced with a six-story building, and I missed the open space there when I biked by. To say nothing of the houses across the street that were suddenly looking across at a huge building. We lose the sky.

Yes, we need housing, and letting more developers make profits on making more buildings isn't solving the underlying problems. As I'm sure you're aware!