Traffic is one consequence of scale. So when PCPC talked traffic, it was
dealing with one aspect of scale it deemed within its scope. Not to your
satisfaction, perhaps; still it did that job.
You dismissed its work. So you seem to be using the term differently, to
describe visual scale, and perhaps ... social scale, to coin a clumsy
term: the integrity of social interactions that are shaped by certain
spaces and sizes. That's what I've been trying to figure out with you.
Zoning is a body of regulations that takes literal, visual scale
seriously. Clearly it is ZBA's business to pass judgement on it.
PCPC's opinion should be valuable in deciding some questions -- whether
the public infrastructure affected by a large-scale project is up to the
task, for instance. A nod from PCPC may resolve some, but not all,
questions of scale.
Both proponents and opponents of the Campus Inn will now move ahead to
the next inning.
-- Tony West
and my modest point is that, whether anyone admits it or not, everyone
IS weighing in on the issue of the hotel's size and scale, because
every issue about that hotel has to do with its size and scale.
some have tried to get around this by distorting drawings, others by
scrubbing testimony from meeting minutes, others by telling us that
we'll get used to it, and still others by reducing the issue to one of
traffic. and now some will tell us it's really nobody's business.
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