[Jdawgboy]

I love it! This is exactly how I envision this area of South Shore Central. It's the right type of density and the right type of interweaving between the hike and bike trails/parks with the urban fabric. If this exact plan gets built out, It would be an achievement that the city can really be proud of.

Of course we don't live in an ideal world where these sorts of projects get built out to their full potential as envisioned. (Though I will say all in all, the 2nd Street District/Green Water area came pretty close, however I do feel the overall height of the highrises could have been taller and more varied in height to each other, having said that it can't be denied that area is a roaring success with the street activity vibrance and is exactly what the city was going for.) This is where we could put ourselves as forumers to good use in getting involved with public input. We need a good counterbalance to the NAs which really should not have any say in what happens because it doesn't directly affect them. They will use traffic through their neighborhoods as the main excuse but reality is, traffic is not going to spike anymore than it has with all the other new developments DT. With their logic, nothing should be built at all because their poor neighborhood streets are going to become parking lots. It just hasn't happened and it won't.