In Defense of Our Planners
If you have read many of my posts, you may see that I pick on government regulation alot. I spend alot of time picking on zoning - and a little time on building code - but not that much on developers or property owners, flippers or speculators - and until now have generally been avoiding cultural overlays. In a recent conversation with an reputed planner in town; I thought it was time to come clean, to explain my thoughts. Cultural overlays play a huge part in this - when I suggest that most people value walkable communities over parking, I do believe that - I believe that their actions, how they spend their time and money betray that. But, I do not believe that most people have spent any significant amount of time considering parking though, beyond that they wish that there was more of it specifically where they currently happen to be looking for a parking stall. So the same person can show up at a Public Hearing or Planning session and say they want more parking, but also want safer