Mountain Plaza

[ryan_mcgreal]

The city has identified Upper James as a major corridor for future development in the GRIDS nodes-and-corridors model. It will be the route for a north-south rapid transit system and is intended to accommodate much of the intensification the city expects over the next few decades.

They can't do this without rethinking the role of parking; or to put it more bluntly, Upper James must become more urban in character, which means that parking in general needs to be de-emphasized in land use planning and zoning.

To the extent that the Mountain Plaza plan follows a big box model, it's inappropriate for the city's strategy, but the problem is not with the loss of parking.