12-17-2020, 08:24 PM
(12-17-2020, 12:57 PM)Belmonster Wrote:Quote:I dunno, in my mind a transit oriented community must be an equally walkable neighbourhood to succeed, and this just doesn't do it for me. If it does for other people, then I hope they enjoy living there, it just confuses me.
Seems like a bootstrapping problem. Although this development is designed to be walkable and transit oriented, the neighborhood around it isn't. Somebody has to go first, though. I'm hopeful that the surrounding car lots and vacant land will eventually be replaced with other walkable, transit-oriented developments -- at the very least this seems like a good push in that direction.
In the meantime, easy access to transit counts for a lot, and as far as I know this is as easy as access to the ION gets.
While it is true, they don't *have* to wait for other developments. I'm not certain what the zoning is here, but in theory, this could be a mixed use development providing some of the needed walkable ammenities within the development itself.