3rd Ave is also fairly consistently full of vehicles (Nancy O's, Betulla Burning), and yet the Intersect school just decided to close its doors (relocate?) because of safety concerns. Darrin, you seem to speak my language. All is not desperately bad, and also all is not rosy. Both things can be true. We used to hear a lot of talk about crowding out the bad by increasing the good, encouraging more business to operate downtown, encourage more positive presence downtown. We've got a lot of great things to celebrate downtown, but it hasn't been the total answer, and lack of business hasn't been the only problem. It's a bit of a pickle (no offence to pickles).
An old piece of wisdom that has always stuck with me: complicated problems do not have simple solutions. Seems obvious but despite people searching for one, there's no silver bullet for layers and layers of problems that span decades and are slices of gigantic messy social, economic, and design pie.
Like I said last week, I think one big place to start is to ensure that there are other voices talking about it OTHER than the ones who are posing harmful, uneducated, and counter-intuitive solutions.
Definitely a scoundrel. I fell for it. Ive been DT with nowhere to park- and wondering if I am to park quite far away is my car window going to get smashed?? I mean I parked at the legion for a show and watched some people using drugs 20 feet from my parking spot so I was understandably nervous.
3rd Ave is also fairly consistently full of vehicles (Nancy O's, Betulla Burning), and yet the Intersect school just decided to close its doors (relocate?) because of safety concerns. Darrin, you seem to speak my language. All is not desperately bad, and also all is not rosy. Both things can be true. We used to hear a lot of talk about crowding out the bad by increasing the good, encouraging more business to operate downtown, encourage more positive presence downtown. We've got a lot of great things to celebrate downtown, but it hasn't been the total answer, and lack of business hasn't been the only problem. It's a bit of a pickle (no offence to pickles).
An old piece of wisdom that has always stuck with me: complicated problems do not have simple solutions. Seems obvious but despite people searching for one, there's no silver bullet for layers and layers of problems that span decades and are slices of gigantic messy social, economic, and design pie.
Like I said last week, I think one big place to start is to ensure that there are other voices talking about it OTHER than the ones who are posing harmful, uneducated, and counter-intuitive solutions.
Definitely a scoundrel. I fell for it. Ive been DT with nowhere to park- and wondering if I am to park quite far away is my car window going to get smashed?? I mean I parked at the legion for a show and watched some people using drugs 20 feet from my parking spot so I was understandably nervous.