https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/earthquake-greater-victoria-1.6990956
Victoria,_British_Columbia (V-BC) has some of the shortest buildings of any major city in Canada. V-BC is just a backwater provincial capital, whereas Melbourne, Vic. is a mighty state capital.
The city seems bent towards never allowing a 30 story residential building anywhere in Victoria. The tallest office building isn't even 15 stories.
"The project was initially discussed as a 29- or 30-storey building. In the fall, Townline said it would go with a slightly shorter building after finding some resistance at city hall." https://www.timescolonist.com/real-estate-news/victorias-tallest-building-at-26-storeys-gets-approval-4661187
https://www.timescolonist.com/local-news/45-earthquake-shakes-greater-victoria-washington-state-coast-on-sunday-night-7658398 Perhaps this will help BC with another excuse to keep Victoria as a provincial backwater.
https://www.cgenarchive.org/victoria-earthquakes.html
https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/bc-earthquake-victoria-washington
A stump building in Seattle or Melbourne would be a tower in Victoria, BC. So far, no building on Vancouver Island is allowed to be as tall as the Old_City_Hall_in_Toronto at 103.64 m (340.0 ft). Old_City_Hall_(Toronto) is still a grand building, but its become a stump in TO over the past several decades.
No building in V-BC is allowed to attain or rival the height of St_Paul's_Cathedral,_Melbourne.
"Once the central spire, named the Moorhouse Spire, was completed to its full height of 312 ft (95m),[5] St Paul's became the tallest structure in central Melbourne and dominated the city's skyline when viewed from the south." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul's_Cathedral,_Melbourne#20th_and_21st_centuries
Unlike the state of Victoria and Washington State, backwater BC will use any excuse to hold back its urban scale and its infrastructure. It seems that by the time electric power was installed in Toronto, TO was never going back to just being another provincial backwater city.
Wellington,_NZ is just as scenic as V-BC if not moreso, but it allows for some taller buildings and is also in an earthquake zone. The Vancouver_Island part of backwater BC should have had a modern train like this by now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand_Wellington_suburban
Apparently, V-BC is to never allow anything to rival the tallest buildings in Wellington, Ottawa-Gatineau, Halifax, Quebec_City, Winnipeg & Edmonton. Just barely taller than Regina,_Saskatchewan.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wellington#Transport
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vancouver_Island#Demographics
https://thedigitallabyrinth.blogspot.com/search?q=earthquakes
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