07-15-2018, 02:21 PM
(07-15-2018, 01:40 PM)KevinL Wrote: The 'it was always trespass before' point should not be discounted. At no point along the Fairway side of the corridor was there, or even is there now, a public access point that could be indicated as a need for connection. As every lot along that entire run is private, any planner or engineer would rightly default to enclosing it with an impassible fence and considering the job done.
It has taken a higher awareness of the situation, of how those informal, technically-illegal passages of the past were not only convenient but vital for the adjoining neighbourhood, for this to come to the level where it is now. This is certainly a wider condemnation of how commercial space is permitted to develop and crowd out public facilities, but that is at the feet of our broader society and not at the planners of this system specifically.
Yes. If they were working from maps they wouldn't see it. They would have to work from sat photos, which may not be part of their workflow, or as jeffster points out, the designers may have gotten overruled by people who only looked at the maps.
I'll generally ascribe good intentions to people unless there is specific reason to think that they are malicious.