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Originally Posted by AdamUrbanist
The 5 minute walk shed around Hollywood station is largely freeway, land unattractive for development because of the freeway, and single family historic district. That's just never going to be a recipe for the kind of development that drives ridership. I hope this project helps but realizing the planning aspirations for Hollywood would probably require tunneling and building an underground station more central to the district. (and probably lots of other improvements elsewhere in the system)
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From how it looks in the air, a lot of it is surface-level parking lots. The highway adjacency is an issue; the SFHs are not.
I know it's a difficult thing for a lot of Portlanders to stomach, but SFHs do not belong so close to the center of a metro area of ~2 million people. It's not exclusively a Portland problem: most American cities--even the older ones on the east coast--devolve too quickly into low-density development patterns. Redevelopment is what needs to happen in these areas, into higher-density uses. Current residents can be housed-in-place in condos they own, but reaping the wealth benefits of being on land which has become so valuable due to proximity to a city center is an injustice (and major economic-geographic efficiency), itself.