Thanks, Mike for your constructive comments. I appreciate that you care about the quality of life in Madison.
Mike -- Michael Rewey Madison, WI cell 608.698.6673 home 608.249.6673 ---- "Michael D. Barrett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, Eric, for bringing this to the group and for the great > analysis. You're pretty much dead on. Shoup is a genius! It is good > to see this stuff happening. > > > I understand, but have no details, that Madison's Urban Design > >Commission is already considering quality controls. > > Make that, *has been instituting* quality controls. Or at least *had* > been. It's the sort of thing that gets you thrown off of commissions > by "green" mayors. (My old buddies on UDC reassure me they are > continuing to push, as they now call them, "The MB Rules" on parking > and pedestrian connectivity & bike amenities though!) > > I'm glad Gruber is doing it. I just hope it isn't his undoing! Tim > has been a very astute learner of all this New Urbanist stuff. His > constituents on this list should thank him for this work. > > UDC--as a group--was really doing yeoman work on parking standards. > They were far, far ahead of even the enviro groups around here. > Midwest Environmental Advocates recently put out a Big Box Store > design guide in which they suggested up to 6 parking stalls/1000 sf.! > UDC typically aimed for *no more than* 3 per 1000 even in big box > land; the result was generally right around that. Sometimes less, > sometimes more, but almost never more than 4. And of course, even > those numbers are ultimately quite high when you look at the actual > usage. As I keep saying, Google Earth any area of Madison built after > 1960, and note that in any one square block area, no more than 1/3 of > the parking is used (excluding car sales lots). And on street parking > isn't used at all. > > > > > > >The Plan Commission on Monday asked staff to analyze the proposals > >and report back in a month. > > That is fine, as far as it goes. With a few exceptions, Plan Dept > staff isn't exactly noted for being well-read in anything post, > +/-1970. So it would be good for folks to encourage their respective > alders to be visionary on this, and just go over the heads of staff > in the end. > > And then there is this: > > > > >This will be a hard sell, probably, because people who hate freedom > >will object that relaxing government controls is somehow a > >totalitarian scheme to make everyone gay. > > > BWHAAHAAHAAHAAAH! Exactly! > > Thanks, again, Eric. > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > Bikies mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies _______________________________________________ Bikies mailing list [email protected] http://www.danenet.org/mailman/listinfo/bikies
