Comments for A Better Way To Zone http://abetterwaytozone.com Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:37:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 Comment on Where Does Form-Based Zoning Fit into All This? by Dick Farley http://abetterwaytozone.com/2008/06/17/where-does-form-based-zoning-fit-into-all-this/#comment-5690 Dick Farley Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:34:26 +0000 http://abetterwaytozone.com/?p=29#comment-5690 Don, I agree entirely. If a doctor said take this medicine for all of your problems, then you'd be checking the ingredients for 'snake oil'. When it comes to 'placemaking' you pick your battles, either around an opportunity to create a place on a blank piece of paper like Belmar, or around the nucleus of an existing place that needs reinforcement. Form based zoning applied over the entire city assumes that everywhere in a city must be a 'place', and that every street must be attractive to pedestrians lined with storefront shops, or edged with ground floor residential next to the street. Pre-designing the city is both arrogant and dictatorial, sure to arouse the rebel in all of us. Don, I agree entirely. If a doctor said take this medicine for all of your problems, then you’d be checking the ingredients for ’snake oil’. When it comes to ‘placemaking’ you pick your battles, either around an opportunity to create a place on a blank piece of paper like Belmar, or around the nucleus of an existing place that needs reinforcement. Form based zoning applied over the entire city assumes that everywhere in a city must be a ‘place’, and that every street must be attractive to pedestrians lined with storefront shops, or edged with ground floor residential next to the street. Pre-designing the city is both arrogant and dictatorial, sure to arouse the rebel in all of us.

]]> Comment on Smart Growth and (Financial) Sustainability by Kevin Vaught http://abetterwaytozone.com/2008/11/15/smart-growth-and-financial-sustainability/#comment-5686 Kevin Vaught Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:54:27 +0000 http://abetterwaytozone.com/?p=37#comment-5686 Excellent topic and approach. I'm a geographer and appraiser. I encounter these issues all the time. I tried to access the "buy now," but it didn't work. Kevin Excellent topic and approach. I’m a geographer and appraiser. I encounter these issues all the time. I tried to access the “buy now,” but it didn’t work.

Kevin

]]> Comment on Postcard from Jakarta by Julianne http://abetterwaytozone.com/2008/06/29/postcard-from-jakarta/#comment-5671 Julianne Sun, 15 Feb 2009 21:54:22 +0000 http://abetterwaytozone.com/?p=30#comment-5671 Thank you for sharing your insight of Jakarta - it was very interesting to read! from a US Small City Planner and Planning Graduate student Thank you for sharing your insight of Jakarta - it was very interesting to read!
from a US Small City Planner and Planning Graduate student

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]]> Comment on Postcard from Jakarta by apaduarty http://abetterwaytozone.com/2008/06/29/postcard-from-jakarta/#comment-17 apaduarty Sun, 03 Aug 2008 12:15:00 +0000 http://abetterwaytozone.com/?p=30#comment-17 Very nice!! Very nice!!

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