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1. When find yourself in a hole -stop digging. No more belt ways, complete moratorium on annexations into
Rational policy is put in place.
2. Zoning has to change everywhere, immediately. Introduce mixed-use neighborhoods; upzone upzone upzone. Replace Euclidean zoning with form-based code. Build densisty from the core out.
4. If Atlanta is like most US cities it has developed a ton of regs over the years that make development in the core a huge obstacle. Strip these away. The great cities in the world developed without the. They do more harm than good.
3. Reconfigure streets to be complex, multi-modal and friendly to uses other than cars.
4. Rediscover the grid. Look at every available opportunity to re-stitch the grid together.
6. Turn the one-way streets into two-way streets.
5. Atlanta likely has a master plan, but it's likely decades out of date. Put together a new one, base it on cities that are doing the right things.
6. Fire the transportation department. Every last person. They will be the biggest impediment to change going forward.
7. Reinvest transportation dollars away from big roads projects. Do little road diets, bike lanes, cycle tracks, all over the central core.
8. After they've done the above - consider making large investments into high capacity transit.
9. Tell every developer of very new greenfield site that not one acre of their land will ever be annexed, nor city services extended to their residents unless: the site is built to a grid and well connected to surrounding communities, and access points provided for connections to future communities, and that developer must develop densely enough that he can demonstrate to the satisfaction of a neutral third party that the tax revenue generated will be sufficient to cover all future infrastructure maintenance costs past the first life cycle.
That's just a brief start
3. Oh, God, not this again. We've got a thread on here about how people can't possibly walk through a frickin' strip mall parking lot, how do you suppose it'd work to have streets "friendly to uses other than cars"?
6. (the second #6) That'd be helpful, not. It'd take years for people just to get up to speed
8. Who's paying?
9. No "center city" would ever pass that test. It would be the end of cities everywhere.
Name a major city in America that doesn't have one-way streets.
I can't - they're generally terrible ideas - usually the worst streets in town. There are exceptions - where there are exceptionally narrow streets, or where density is extremely high. Usually, city transportation departments converted streets into two-way couplets in vogue with all the other really bad ideas they had that were ruinous to downtowns.
Cities are converting their one-way streets to two-ways all over the US with amazing success.
3. Oh, God, not this again. We've got a thread on here about how people can't possibly walk through a frickin' strip mall parking lot, how do you suppose it'd work to have streets "friendly to uses other than cars"?
6. (the second #6) That'd be helpful, not. It'd take years for people just to get up to speed
8. Who's paying?
9. No "center city" would ever pass that test. It would be the end of cities everywhere.
3. Easy - 1. Put cars in their place. 2. Mix the uses. 3. Get the parking right. 4. Let transit work. 5. Protect the pedestrian. 6. welcome bicyclists. 7. shape the spaces. 8. plant trees. 9. make friendly and unique building facades. and 10. Pick the winners - concentrate on a few good ones - let it spread from there.
6. Transportation departments are generally run by dinosaurs and the biggest impediments to progress. Fire them - fire them all. Hire people who share in the city vision, not pull against it.
8. Everyone - everyone pays for the betterment of the city - everyone gets a great city out of it.
9. Quite the opposite, almost all center cities would far exceed this test - they're the ones that supplement the suburbs. If the test were implemented very few new suburban communities could be funded.
3. Easy - 1. Put cars in their place. 2. Mix the uses. 3. Get the parking right. 4. Let transit work. 5. Protect the pedestrian. 6. welcome bicyclists. 7. shape the spaces. 8. plant trees. 9. make friendly and unique building facades. and 10. Pick the winners - concentrate on a few good ones - let it spread from there.
6. Transportation departments are generally run by dinosaurs and the biggest impediments to progress. Fire them - fire them all. Hire people who share in the city vision, not pull against it.
8. Everyone - everyone pays for the betterment of the city - everyone gets a great city out of it.
9. Quite the opposite, almost all center cities would far exceed this test - they're the ones that supplement the suburbs. If the test were implemented very few new suburban communities could be funded.
ROTFL. It doesn't make any sense anyway. Most suburban communities were not and are not looking for annexation from the central city in a region, nor do they get infrastructure services from the central city. With the rise of HOAs, the developers often aren't even looking for annexation by or street dedication to from the smaller communities they are built near or in.
I can't - they're generally terrible ideas - usually the worst streets in town. There are exceptions - where there are exceptionally narrow streets, or where density is extremely high. Usually, city transportation departments converted streets into two-way couplets in vogue with all the other really bad ideas they had that were ruinous to downtowns.
Cities are converting their one-way streets to two-ways all over the US with amazing success.
The pink lines in the pictures represent the one-way streets in Atlanta. One-way streets appear to be confined to Atlanta's dense urban core. I can only conclude that you don't believe Atlanta's downtown is dense enough to support one-way streets.
Other than downtown, Atlanta doesn't have a lot of one-way streets.
The pink lines in the pictures represent the one-way streets in Atlanta. One-way streets appear to be confined to Atlanta's dense urban core. I can only conclude that you don't believe Atlanta's downtown is dense enough to support one-way streets.
Other than downtown, Atlanta doesn't have a lot of one-way streets.
you conclude correctly - Atlanta doesn't have nearly the population downtown for one-way streets to work - think Manhattan. Since Atlanta will never have that kind of density, it should immediate embark on conventing it's two-way couplets back to one-way streets.
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