05-03-2021, 04:59 PM
(05-03-2021, 03:59 PM)ijmorlan Wrote:(05-03-2021, 02:49 PM)ac3r Wrote: Honestly...I wouldn't even waste your time reading this junk. Public feedback like this is rarely taken into consideration, but they have to pretend to care. Planners tend to know what they're doing when designing something of this magnitude and unless there was some absolutely massive step they failed to consider (which rarely happens), they don't really care what random people think - especially when they're getting big brain suggestions like building a gondola system or that they're "Wasting money trying to force people not to drive their car".
I can’t help but wonder if this attitude isn’t exactly the problem with planners. Pretending to care and assuming that they know what they are doing when they clearly do not (at least, not all the time) are not the route to optimal projects.
While it is a fact that many of the comments are B.S. (to the extent that something as imprecise as that can be a fact), there are bound to be missed local context or thought provoking ideas in the feedback, sadly mixed in. As an expert in my own domain, this is my experience with client feedback, and I’ve seen enough to be certain that it is the same in the architecture/urban planning realm.
Soliciting useful and relevant feedback is a skillset in itself, not everyone (few even) have it. It is a job which is made much easier (but absolutely still not trivial) when those you are soliciting feedback are working in good faith.