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Originally Posted by CrestedSaguaro
Yep. As usual, the NIMBY's won a "great" victory. ![Cuckoo](images/smilies/koko.gif)
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I think the parking will all be in a garage. I'm not so much concerned about asphalt. It's more my usual concern about building apartments with huge amounts of parking and offering it to tenants at no added cost (but plenty of hidden cost embedded in rent) so close to a light rail station and a major bike route. The original plan certainly didn't skimp on parking, but the neighbors raised concerns about tenants parking on "their streets," so the developer agreed to expand the garage. If this backfires on the neighborhood opponents, it won't be due to trading green space for surface parking. Instead, it will be that more parking, especially free parking, may induce more driving, and that will lead to the increase in traffic the project's opponents feared.