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Originally Posted by bunt_q
I didn’t vote against it because I care about the refund, I definitely don’t. I just don’t trust the current leadership to spend the money in a way I would agree with. I’m quite content to keep state government lean.
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Originally Posted by laniroj
Lone Tree was proactive but they've already essentially developed as a low/medium density suburban TOD (which is great but it's not adding significanr ridership).
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As soon as the RidgeGate Parkway station opened it immediately became the 2nd busiest station along the SE Corridor. The last parcel on the west side will be an eight-story apartment. But more importantly the lion's share of TOD will be on the east side which is still ahead, not behind us.
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Originally Posted by laniroj
Aurora has some medium density zoning around their TOD nodes, but nobody can afford to develop density in Aurora because of the cost of doing business there, so it'll never happen without massive incentives.
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Aurora is the one suburb that allowed medium density as they grew. At
that time, they received tons of criticism for allowing all those apartments, townhomes and condos. Fast forward (and not counting the 'A Line') Nine Mile Station (along with Littleton/Mineral Station) are the two top performing suburban stations. Florida Stations with NO parking has quickly risen to 25th busiest out of 66 stations.
TOD apartments have been built at Iliff Station, Colfax Station, Fitz Station and Dayton Station. Construction has started for TOD at 2nd and Abilene and an total redevelopment of the old Regatta Plaza across from Nine Mile Station. More TOD is in the works at Fitz, south of Colfax, and near the 13th Ave Station, and condos nearby Aurora Center Station.
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Originally Posted by laniroj
The bottom line is this: we need many hundreds of thousands of more beds located within 1/2 mile of rail and high frequency bus transit if we want to be able to sustain the MASSIVE system we've now paid for and we can't do that until all these municipalities significantly upzone a whole lot of land.
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Not even close; even downtown Denver has only added ~17,000 residents since 2000.
What's needed is a transit system that people want to utilize; it's convenient and accessible - which should include first and last mile service, doesn't take twice as long as driving - it needs to be more efficient with fewer stops and get people where they need to go - which again goes to first and last mile service.
I've already pointed out previously that suburbs need to do more to add density.