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Originally Posted by Rileybo
There’s approximately 0% vibrancy due to no street engagement, every structure is wide, under 100’ tall, and soulless. When I was a teen this is where
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I'm embrace anarchism when it comes to height and density in the downtown core (let developers go nuts)...
EXCEPT 100% of the street frontage must engage with the sidewalk. It must be a public doorway or window to occupied space (retail, residential, office, etc.). They can do whatever the hell they want on floors 2-100+. But the ground floor is too important to the economic vibrancy and safety of the city to be a blank wall.
We wouldn't let a developer build a suburban shopping center on 10600 South that's 90% wall blocking the view of the shopping center. Why would a downtown (even one 50 years ago) approve blank walls at the base of buildings?