For me it's a hard pass. Just because it's investor funded doesn't negate the importance of major destinations adhering to sound planning practices. Clearly the investor expects to be making a hefty profit, so they'll be pulling in huge revenues from it decades after the initial cost has been recovered while the municipality is left to deal with the negative externalities the entire time. The municipality be paying for the roads and infrastructure connections to integrate the site with the rest of the grid, and paying the significantly higher than average subsidy per transit ride. And any additional developments that it attracts will continue to encourage auto-centricity.
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
Don't ask people not to debate a topic. Just stop making debatable assertions. Problem solved.
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