11-15-2015, 01:24 PM
I finally watched the video. Lotsa lovely drone footage, indeed!
What caught my eye were the mottos at the end:
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"Moving People" - Okay, yeah, you're not a transit authority, but this is pretty on the nose.
"Limiting Sprawl" - ...interesting choice. Not sure that directly follows, but I'll give you that you're increasing the people-moving capacity at the core of these towns, which supports increased denisty. However, it does not follow that the people who would develop and populate the "sprawling" developments would be more interested in developing or populating higher-density core developments. My guess is that this will attract additional developers and populations to the centre, while letting the existing sprawl continue as it would have without ion. This is not awful or anything, but isn't exactly what's being said. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one, since I don't have any figures backing me up.
"Protecting farmland" - whut. This is almost a non-sequitur.
Have these always been the mottos/goals/public-facing communication vectors of the ion project, or are they new?
What caught my eye were the mottos at the end:
"Moving People" - Okay, yeah, you're not a transit authority, but this is pretty on the nose.
"Limiting Sprawl" - ...interesting choice. Not sure that directly follows, but I'll give you that you're increasing the people-moving capacity at the core of these towns, which supports increased denisty. However, it does not follow that the people who would develop and populate the "sprawling" developments would be more interested in developing or populating higher-density core developments. My guess is that this will attract additional developers and populations to the centre, while letting the existing sprawl continue as it would have without ion. This is not awful or anything, but isn't exactly what's being said. But I'll give them the benefit of the doubt on this one, since I don't have any figures backing me up.
"Protecting farmland" - whut. This is almost a non-sequitur.
Have these always been the mottos/goals/public-facing communication vectors of the ion project, or are they new?