The layout of the neighborhood looks like this:
Where are all the cul-de-sacs? Fort Wayne residential development without cul-de-sacs? What are all those larger buildings and open spaces. Don't these developers know that you are suppose to have to drive to facilities and amenities?
RPOINTE
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This is what architects do. They complete pointless and endless concept sketches for projects that often times aren't even very good.
If the architect is really bad he runs for mayor?
Matt Kelty????
No the other architect that is running for mayor.
It's insanity, I know. Where were the zoning people?
"Zoning is a crude classification system. It classifies a limited number of human activities, and it is obsessed with separating all those activities--like shopping and living--so they don't contaminate each other. ... The highest achievement of zoning is to produce suburban sprawl--an abstraction of a place to live, a cartoon of a human habitat."
- www.bicyclefixation.com/survive.htm
There is nothing wrong with Cul-de-sacs, IMO - people that buy houses on cul-de-sacs often like the lowered traffic, and the increased mini-community aspect (especially when a lot of the houses on the cul-de-sac have kids around the same ages).
Some people don't like cul-de-sacs, and there is nothing wrong with that - but the cul-de-sacs do exist largely because of the demand for them (evident from the increased home value of houses on a cul-de-sac).
Urban development (like Harrison Square) are great ideas (I am very much for HS), but it is important to have other vibrant areas - including suburbs and cul-de-sacs. The fact of the matter is that young professionals moving into a city will have a component that are attracted to urban living, as well as a component that are interested in affordable suburbanite living (perhaps even on a cul-de-sac!).
I am of the mindset that it is always better to promote a concept (such as HS and downtown revitalization), rather than denigrate the opposition. Often times, the truth is you need both sides of the spectrum to thrive. And I think that is the case when it comes to a vibrant downtown, and a thriving suburban area.
Also, I don't think it is mutually exclusive. Building up downtown does not mean you cannot have large suburban areas, and having suburban areas does not mean you cannot have a vibrant downtown.
Just my thoughts... feel free to pick apart..
jtc
Thank you Anonymous cul-de-sac supporter! Harrison Square will not have a prayer if it doesn't have strong Fort Wayne neighborhoods to support it. Some of those neighbor- hoods will even have cul-de-sacs.
"Wonder why Kelty didn't use that pic in his ads...."
Because everyone knows Sylvester!!! should be the next mayor
Has SYLVESTER! ever run for Mayor? I remember seeing his yard signs somewhere.
"cul-de-sac" means bottom of the bag doesn't it?
stop driving. bankrupt the state.
Everything in the hood is in walking distance- who needs cars.
affordable housing- Eden (Cabrini) Green; the Projects;
the Mall- pontiac st.
Liquor stores,drugs, 'ho's, gambling.
fuel- Anthony and McKinnie
unemployment, welfare, and food stamps- Rudisill, and Lafayette.
Check cashing, pawn shops.
Fried Chicken- clinton, and Pontiac.
Watermelons- Warsaw st. Market.
No need to venture away from "Paradise".
If they Gantrify the hood; where will all the poor black folks live? and the illegal Mexicans?
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