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Originally Posted by Hali87
Pretty straightforward article on RP+5.
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That was a lazy article with a misleading headline. If downtown living is not attractive, then why were some downtown census tracts among the fastest-growing census tracts in the municipality? Why are prices on the peninsula so high?
I've seen maybe a dozen or more Herald articles pointing out that the city missed its urban infill growth targets but I don't think any of them have provided a detailed analysis of what happened.
Who is Jim Backman? Some random person they found? Why did they leave such an obviously misguided statement totally unchallenged? The article is basically an assortment of comments from people of varying degrees of ignorance. Determining the level of ignorance of the quoted is apparently left as an exercise for the reader.
The Bruce Smith comment is also pretty silly. It may be hard to find parking during the day downtown, but once commuters are gone it is not hard at all. If you're willing to talk the equivalent of half a Bayers Lake Wal-Mart parking lot you can probably find an on-street parking space downtown, and typically the parking garages are mostly empty (and if the thousands of spots downtown were full, wouldn't that mean that the area is busy?). The real story there is that many suburbanites either just don't like going downtown or are ignorant of the situation there, not that there's no parking to be found in the evenings.