The fact that we're talking about pedestrians and traffic as being some of the biggest problems with the Domain suggests what?
That the Domain is urban. Because that's what urban places face: inbound car traffic for the mixed use amenities offered, a dense walkable built environment with a number of building uses (including residential), and all that leads to heavy pedestrian traffic. It's 100% the second most urban place in the region. Highland isn't even #3, a title that unambiguously goes to downtown San Marcos / Texas State.
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Originally Posted by MichaelB
Lets start with... how much have you shopped or dined there?
Would love to know what your experience is or if this is just a random debate.
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I go to the Domain every time I visit home, which is every few months. I normally take a rideshare service there (thank god for Uber and Lyft being back in ATX) and walk around to shop.But even if a lot of the people who make up the pedestrian traffic drove there themselves, are we seriously going to argue that that has anything to do with how urban someplace is? Go ahead and write off downtown, then, as being not urban at all because most of the pedestrian foot traffic there is from people who drove in from the suburbs.
Yeah, maybe the planning sucked and they could have been better at that, but that doesn't mean it isn't actually urban.