• D61 [any]
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    2 years ago

    Gonna have to ask the question, are there not already paved and prepared places where new housing could be constructed instead of green spaces?

    Like, the first thing that happens with making a subdivision is the bulldozers come in and remove the first foot or so of soil and replace it with clay and gravel to get foundation pads laid. Then there are the, probably, miles of sewer lines, gas lines, electric/communication lines that need to be dug in. Then there's the roadways and rain drains that have to be worked into the city's rain water diversion plans.

    • MaoistLandlord [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Proponents of the project characterize Save Open Space and the opponents as anti-housing. But many opponents of the golf course redevelopment have pointed to the industrial part of Northeast Park Hill, less than a block from the golf course, and other nearby neighborhoods along the A Line.

      That part of the neighborhood includes many empty parking lots and one-story industrial buildings ripe for dense, mixed-use development. Why take over 155-acres of potential park when there is so much underused land nearby they ask?

      • D61 [any]
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        2 years ago

        Kinda what I figured I would find after reading.

    • CanYouFeelItMrKrabs [any, he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Glancing at the map it looks like this is in the city and there isn't any other green space around that isn't a park or national park