Bike Lake City
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Creative outlet of @bjaminwood. Streets are for people. Bike+Train kills cars.
SLC, UT
Joined April 2020
The draft “Planner’s Pledge” that @JeffSpeckFAICP added to the end of Walkable City is the most perfect distillation of new urbanism that I’ve ever seen. Read this, commit to it, and join the fight of making our world a better place to live in. #utpol #slc
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Hat tip to this multi-family build in Poplar Grove. Notice how the corner unit is flipped so that both streets have activation? It’s the little things that add up #slc
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@logicsofworlds A block-sized homeless shelter? That’s what you want for the entire fleet block? And you’re certain that would do more for more people than the current plans?
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@logicsofworlds That’s precisely what we’re doing. Greenspace, housing, services, walkability. You have yet to articulate any alternative vision or any compelling argument to the contrary
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We see this line of thinking a lot on the west side. For example, I heard a lot of people object to *trees* on 600 North because it might prompt a person to sit on the ground in the shade. We’re so afraid of the future we can’t even recognize the present.
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@logicsofworlds You’re self-contradicting now. Weren’t you just complaining about abatements? Now you’re complaining that the homeless would seek to use the space? And of course they already use the space so that has little to do with the project plans. You’re making no sense dude
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@logicsofworlds You’ve jumped topics. You’re clearly conflating this project with your opposition to the state’s homelessness response broadly. That is neither fair nor productive. Yes, we probably will see the county conduct abatements *whether or not* we improve this site to be productive
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@logicsofworlds Agreed. That’s why I’m so glad the plans include greenspace for all, better connections for transit riders and an expansion of the housing supply at various price points including affordable units to broaden access to housing, within walking distance of service providers
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@mattpacenza That’s true, and they’ve improved the plans for the block itself in response to that private development. I do think we ended up with a better project (if it gets built) but the extra decade with a pit in the center of the hood isn’t helping anyone. Mixed bag as always
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@mattpacenza No doubt. Plenty to criticize about how the city has gone about this particular project. But they’ve also had to deal with reactionary headwinds at every turn
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people WANT to protect their communities, but they have no clue how, or from what. They assume “development is bad” for so long that it calcifies into a worldview that blocks out the sun and even a plan to build a park and walkable connection where there is none looks nefarious.
@bikelakecity This is the neighborhood in question. You’re pretending like it’s a group with a singular interest, it’s not. What does it even mean to ‘help the neighborhood?’ when there’s no clear interest at play? Do you think my union hall, a brewery, the bike collective, apts have interests
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@logicsofworlds You’re clueless man. Enjoy being opposed to everything while the rest of us are proven right over and over again
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@logicsofworlds Ok then, it’s for the needs of the people. Developers don’t need any help making their investment profitable, as ANYONE who owns property in SLC right now knows. Now answer me: How would leaving the block as is help the neighborhood?
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@mattreedah @devinzander Hard times right? I thought it was a real bar but you had to be a resident?
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