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Originally Posted by Urban_logic
Present limitations never impede a city's potential. What exactly do you mean by "infrastructure and planning"?
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I mean exactly what urbanboy just explained... there is no downtown road grid... no road system. It formed as a suburb and will always have suburb characteristics. There was no foresight and contrary to what SLCProjects said, it has only gotten worse during the past 10-15 years in my opinion. There are some TOD options for Sandy and I hope leaders there evaluate these carefully but it is just a pass through for mass transit like Midvale, or Murray or S. Salt Lake... it is not an ending destination where multiple lines end up like SLC.
Just look at a satellite map of Sandy on Google maps and you will see what I mean. Originally Sandy did have a small grid in it's old downtown area from 90th south to 85th South and from State St over to about 300 E...
If they would have continued that early grid and built up their city gov't presence and everything around that it would be a whole different story today, but it's not. It's too late. It's a suburb and will always remain just that.
SLC isn't even the best example of a walkable downtown because of the aforementioned wide streets but there is still a functional grid. Look at cities here in the west known for being walkable like Portland OR or San Francisco, or Seattle... what do they all have in common?
Even smaller cities like Logan have more vibrant downtown potential than Sandy in my opinion.
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