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Originally Posted by DudeGuy
I'm all for large low-rise projects, but do either of these developments have a retail component? If not, the developers may as well be building suburban townhouses that require residents to drive elsewhere to do anything. I don't think the city should be allowing/encouraging this type of development as it's antithetical to the existing land use patterns throughout the city. If we have more residents driving cars then we're going to need more grocery stores/retail with parking. It would be a lot better if residents of these huge developments had places to walk to within their own neighborhoods/developments.
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The Capri drive project does not and its not anything great in person. That could have easily been oriented to access Penrose Ave and allow for retail frontage on a very dead stretch of roadway. Instead its mediocrity...
At least the pier project has a few retail spaces.