Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
The parking situation at Sunnyside Commons, and the location near the edge of the residential area as you pointed out, make commercial development there untenable. It is fine as a residential only area.
Behind the new parking garage on the corner of Overhill and Jones. The properties in that enclave must be owned by the same person or the developers had no intention of purchasing them to begin with. I suspect they'll be rebuilt in a few years as more and more of the older homes/shantys get the ax.
April agenda at the Morgantown Planning Commission. Just small bits of news and a couple of administrative items. Meeting is Thursday for those interested.
Council met last night and voted against the second reading of the Stewart St rezoning in response to objections from Wiles Hill neighborhood residents. Too bad for these folks -- they don't realize that this part of their neighborhood borders campus and high density at the margins of their neighborhood favors the long-term livability of the more serene parts of their 'hood. Oh well..
In other news, anybody know if CA bought the VFW site at Spruce/Willey? Seems like they're moving awfully slowly...
Council met last night and voted against the second reading of the Stewart St rezoning in response to objections from Wiles Hill neighborhood residents. Too bad for these folks -- they don't realize that this part of their neighborhood borders campus and high density at the margins of their neighborhood favors the long-term livability of the more serene parts of their 'hood. Oh well..
In other news, anybody know if CA bought the VFW site at Spruce/Willey? Seems like they're moving awfully slowly...
Where were the 18 parcels? Was there a developer/project lined up? I'm fine with every SFH not turning into student grade apartments.
1st Street and Stewart Street. The developer had already built townhomes as a natural buffer between Wiles Hill and the land he wanted to have rezoned for higher density. Mountaineer Place, a traditional apartment complex, sits directly beside this piece of property.
Just pure NIMBY-ism on the part of Wiles Hill residents. Everyone complains about traffic, but when a proposal is made to bring more students back into the urban core where they wouldn't have to use their cars as much, it gets shot down based off pure speculation and fear mongering on the part of a certain council member. Sad.
And no, I'm not the developer, just pro-development.
1st Street and Stewart Street. The developer had already built townhomes as a natural buffer between Wiles Hill and the land he wanted to have rezoned for higher density. Mountaineer Place, a traditional apartment complex, sits directly beside this piece of property.
Just pure NIMBY-ism on the part of Wiles Hill residents. Everyone complains about traffic, but when a proposal is made to bring more students back into the urban core where they wouldn't have to use their cars as much, it gets shot down based off pure speculation and fear mongering on the part of a certain council member. Sad.
And no, I'm not the developer, just pro-development.
For everyone's edification... who is that council member? Is it Ron Bane?
I can understand people's desires to protect history and so forth, but we have to be honest here. Except for South Park, much of our older housing stock in our city does not have much going for it in terms of quality. Most West Virginia cities had coal mines, but our city lacked the old money and high paying industries that built Victorian Wheeling, and to a lesser degree Huntington. It lacked the smelly but well paying chemical jobs found in Charleston and New Martinsville. Wheeling had the steel and tobacco mills in addition to the glass plants. We had just the lower paying glass plants and a faucet factory. As a result, our ordinary housing stock was shabbier. The older parts of town are still shabbier, and much of that housing stock needs to be replaced with better, more appealing structures. They were nice, safe neighborhoods in which to grow up... that's true, but they weren't built to last with enduring meaning.
Last edited by CTMountaineer; 05-06-2015 at 02:15 PM..
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.
Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
