Jimithyashford t1_iqz5ccs wrote on October 4, 2022 at 3:59 AM

Reply to comment by dtjayhawk in sunshine and national by laffingriver

I mean you’re right that there wasn’t really “urban planning” regarding the home layout and street placement of national or sunshine.

But like…..man of those homes and all of those roads were laid out in like, ya know, 1890-1920 in that part of town.

So yeah, you are correct it wasn’t exactly urban planned for the needs of a modern city. But how could it have been?

name-isnt-important t1_ir0m72g wrote on October 4, 2022 at 2:00 PM

My understanding was the edge of town was sunshine and battlefield was farm land. Traffic should shift to Battlefield and not have gone through a developed residential area.

Edit: still can.

Jimithyashford t1_ir0o0jw wrote on October 4, 2022 at 2:13 PM

It was, in like 1860. At one point Phelps grove park was considered inconveniently far out of town.

But the residential sprawl crept slowly outward over the years. It didn’t happen all at once. That area was “fully developed” as in most of the houses and lots were in place and built on as we see and know them today by about 1930.

However at that time battlefield was still the boonies and way out of town and basically farm land.

Most cities in the world aren’t centrally planned, they grow organically over time. Roads that originally catered to like a thousand people mostly on foot and in horse carriages were not laid out with hundreds of thousands of cars in mind, or with the intention of being major corridors between sections of regional hub city.

That’s all true, terrible city planning. But like…..duh. Of course it is. Who in like 1840 when national and sunshine were first laid out could possible have planned for the reality of 2022?

But of course road ways can be torn up and redone, homes can be placed under imminent Domain and demolished to re-do the transportation grid. That’s an option. But what are you proposing? If I gave you the city planner pen and guaranteed approval for whatever you propose, what are you proposing?

name-isnt-important t1_ir10wgb wrote on October 4, 2022 at 3:39 PM

At this point an easy solution would be for the city to buy the home and either turn it into a low density office or tear it down and build a pocket park as a buffer to the neighborhood. It could be a nice looking corner.

Jimithyashford t1_ir225r7 wrote on October 4, 2022 at 7:33 PM

.....I thought you were complaining about national being a "pseudo highway" due to poor urban planning, and fixing that is what we were speculating about.

How would putting a park on that corner help with that at all. In fact if that park were popular and drew addition traffic to that area it would make the problem worse.

And if you put a park in the footprint of that property, that wouldn't "buffer the neighborhood" it would buffer, let's see, taking a look at the assessor map, exactly zero additional houses. The house immediately to the north and the house immediately to the west would still be road front, and their back yards intersect behind that corner house, and there are no other adjacent properties.

So it would provide absolutely no additional buffering.

So I'm not sure what you are getting at.

And I'm not trying to be difficult, I just, I hear people make these complaints all the time, and to actually fix what they want fixed the city would have to imminent domain literally hundreds of houses across the city and substantially redo the traffic system in town. Which yeah, if the city gets big enough someday we'd likely have to do that, but I don't think it's there yet, and for every 1 person mad about the roads, you'd have 1000 people made about the aggressive property snatching and expense and several years of construction needed to make it happen.