tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35921470.post2631413935475875751..comments2023-07-16T06:34:24.888-04:00Comments on Tales Of Two Cities: Getting It Rightwordboneshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00250201271555676642noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35921470.post-60541588634368113202010-03-07T07:05:55.767-05:002010-03-07T07:05:55.767-05:00Saying 5500 may not be enough was just too outrage...Saying 5500 may not be enough was just too outrageous to begin to address. And you're right, the first commenter pretty much covered it.<br /><br />It's like saying we need an increase in the number of referendum signatures even though we have had several referenda and not one successful in the past 10 years.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35921470.post-33662331441180585352010-03-06T23:47:52.700-05:002010-03-06T23:47:52.700-05:00Hmmmm.... I was hoping this post would get more co...Hmmmm.... I was hoping this post would get more comments. Seems like the last word on this was said early on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35921470.post-48956281247717011432010-03-01T08:53:00.550-05:002010-03-01T08:53:00.550-05:00ANON - a most excellent refutation of WB's wea...ANON - a most excellent refutation of WB's weak and distorted presentation of this issue.<br /><br />To add to your ammo, I bet if we took a poll of people who are not "about-to-retire baby boomers" who already live in Columbia, and especially those around Town Center, I bet they would say that they like things as they are, because, after all, they make a conscious decision to buy their current house in Columbia, based on the current layout of Columbia. <br /><br />I guess WB's plan is to turn Town Center into a large "retirement community". LOL!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />And, now WB's is unsure if 5000 new units is "enough" extra density. LOL again!!!!!!!!!<br /><br />WB's facts are as thin as Kate Moss's waistline.PZGURUnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35921470.post-60971420569248219602010-02-28T23:01:55.829-05:002010-02-28T23:01:55.829-05:00I, too, read this article with some interest. It s...I, too, read this article with some interest. It seemed well-researched at first, but as I made my way through it I came across many spurious "factoids." You quote a couple of them in your blog post:<br /><br />“The nation's two largest groups -- baby boomers shedding their houses as they become empty nesters and millennials reaching their 30s and moving into their own homes -- largely prefer densely populated, walkable communities, experts say."<br /><br />Experts? What experts? I saw no viable citations to these assertions. When I studied rhetoric and logic, one of the first rules I was taught was never use "experts say" as a reason or reference for decision making.<br /><br />In the next paragraph, a hard figure of "86 percent" of one thing or another is attributed to unnamed "urban planners." Ah, I guess those are a subset of those experts. Again, not substatiated.<br /><br />I was apalled by this article, because its main message was that politicians and developers know how and where people want to live, and they can't understand why people aren't just following merrily along.<br /><br />All in all, this article was just continued marketing for a new product that developers want to package and sell to consumers, so they can maximize corporate revenue by developing these properties as densely as possible. If you can make it work, it is highly profitable--if you can get consumers to buy into it.<br /><br />I was amused, however, by how the authors of the article stumbled all over themselves trying to avoid the essential truth they had uncovered: the majority of these suburban urban-center development and re-development projects has either failed already or is in the process of failing now.<br /><br />Looks like most consumers aren't buying into the product.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com