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Originally Posted by Williamoforange
I'm assuming by hate the street, your talking about the interaction with "Life-style" street itself. In which case I fully agree, Pedestrians in a fully new development shouldn't be forced to enter or leave your building from what equates to a traffic circle off the side of the main street.
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"Hate the street":
- setbacks setbacks setbacks
- blank (or functionally blank) street-level facades
- more damn setbacks, weedy strips, poorly maintained "green" "spaces"
- unnecessarily long or convoluted pedestrian accesses
- buildings oriented towards parking lots or access lanes rather than the actual street
- buildings, even as part of a planned larger ensemble, that don't interact well with one another at street level
- no sense of how buildings themselves can offer shade, windbreak, shelter for transit passengers
Those are the sorts of things that constitute street-hating; ugly, inhumane, insensitive architecture, landscaping, and urban design brought to you by people who haven't walked since they turned 17.
Ottawa is rife with it, and despite all our pretty words about better planning, we do nothing about it, and have been for decades.