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I don't get the purpose of setback requirements. I usually prefer neighborhood with little setback.
My neighbors and I all appreciated the 20 feet or so that our homes are set back from the street the night the guy up the street got trashed and drove into my neighbor's front yard.
It's nice to have a little space between me and the street.
My neighbors and I all appreciated the 20 feet or so that our homes are set back from the street the night the guy up the street got trashed and drove into my neighbor's front yard.
It's nice to have a little space between me and the street.
What's interesting to me is to see the 100+ year old areas of the suburbs here (formerly small towns and villages). These structures are RIGHT on the road, whereas their more modern neighbors are set back.
My neighbors and I all appreciated the 20 feet or so that our homes are set back from the street the night the guy up the street got trashed and drove into my neighbor's front yard.
It's nice to have a little space between me and the street.
That's fine, setbacks make sense in certain contexts, but I think the issue many people have (at least myself) is that setbacks are often mandatory, so if you're a developer or potential homeowner, you must have a setback even if you don't want one.
There are better ways to prevent such things: narrow street lanes to physically slow down traffic, and/or street parking which puts nice big heavy cars in between driving vehicles and sidewalk, pedestrians and houses. Or perhaps alternatives to driving (walkability and public transit) so people are perhaps less likely to drive drunk through your neighborhood!
I like all-glass box office buildings, but my big objection is why they only use one color glass for the entire building? You can take an all-glass building and use various reflective glass colors, make it into a mosiac if you wish, or, simply, do X's in a different color.
I do Lego buildings at home, and most of the buildings I create are multi-colored.
You can take an old 70's or 60's glass office building, yank out glass panels, here and there, and creatively substitute them with different colors and give that building a whole new look, and that certainly wouldn't cost a fortune to do it!
One of the buildings I've created, is square, but a different color glass on each side.
Haha CK you crack me up. I think you need to be a planner in a more authoritarian state. Mikeetc just laid out the ins and outs of planning ... and I don't think it matters where in the US he is, that's just the way it is. You have to balance all these different viewpoints in the design.
Nah, I just think pro-sprawl bureaucrats ought to be given the boot. Their incompetence is wrecking the country. I feel sorry for good folks like MIKEETC who have to put up with them on a daily basis.
I prefer functionality over fashion. The most decorative square wheel is useless in comparison to a round wheel.
So I guess you're fine living in one of these? It's perfectly functional.
Are you one of the types who dresses in old t-shirts and jeans every day because appearances don't matter? As clothing, jeans and t-shirts are perfectly functional, but if that's all you wear then people might start to get the impression you were a slob.
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