Yes, completely agree. If I may add to this, it is not just about the ugliness of it, but building so much parking basically assumes that everybody will still drive. This is Midtown, one of the neighborhoods with the best access to transit in the city, and more and more businesses, retail, etc are opening or moving here, creating the opportunity for people to drive less. More parking still encourages everybody to drive, and this leads to more driving infrastructure like wide streets, narrow sidewalks, one way streets, etc. I think it is time for people to build less parking in neighborhoods like midtown and for the city to stop enabling it.
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Originally Posted by Street Advocate
With limited room for development in Midtown east to west (0.7 of a mile at its widest, or 0.4 of a mile as a more common distance), I have to say this extremely short sighted rationale encourages bad city planning and it is a shame you are enabling this. One block of bad planning ruins a vibe of an area. We are talking about nearly 5 sequential blocks for half a mile of parking decks in this instance! Could you imagine if someone proposed today a development that only included a half mile of parking decks in a row? Any neighborhood in the entire country would be livid. Just because parking decks already exist there mean we should encourage more to come.
The recent developments between 5th-10th along Spring should be enough evidence as to what could be in store for Spring north of 10th. This area is growing into the epicenter of Atlanta. We should be fighting for true urban experiences, rather than settling for whatever crap developers propose as most cost effective to them.
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