>>>>> "DB" == David Brauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
DB> My pithy view:
DB> The difference between 10 stories and 13 is trivial. I favor density.
DB> Traffic/environmental is the bigger problem. Fact is, we don't have a
DB> reliably funded transit system to make people believe we can be
DB> denser without the attendant auto pollution and congestion spilling
DB> into neighborhoods that don't deserve it.
DB> Sadly, it's a chicken-and-egg thing...density boosts transit, but
DB> without transit people can believe in, they can legitimately, IMHO,
DB> oppose that density that may, someday, cause transit to flourish.
DB> I think we need to control car use somehow with carrots, not
DB> sticks, hopefully BEFORE we can ask neighbors to accept denser
DB> projects in areas that, despite the presence of Uptown businesses,
DB> are still quite residential.
If it's leverage you want, how about requiring renters in a big
development like this to commit to not having cars? I dunno if that's
enforceable, though...
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Robert P. Goldman
ECCO
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