Mix Use
% of housing, office & retail
- Mixed Use – Priority is meeting neighborhood need for goods and services, (undecipherable), retail. Office and residential are ok but secondary.
- Residential density can be increased but must be capped (at ? 24 unites/acre).
- Design Review for BC zone to prevent lawsuit scale and density.
- Need lots of residential. But min parking regulations currently in place would choke neighborhood with traffic. Need housing that will attract car-light/car-free residents.
- High density residential. Need enough residents to support increased businesses and make it economically feasible for redevelopment. At least 4 stories.
- Somehow find ways to encourage/support retention infill of smaller housing stock & retain green space/breathing space, not stacked up giant boxes.
- Should put in density caps for neighborhood center so a potential Potala Village redux is avoided.
- Height & setbacks is not enough definition to guide development. Huge difference of impact if a developer puts many tiny housing units v. fewer bigger ones in a given # of acres. Need to look at BC (HENC) as a whole, not as 2 separate pieces.
- Mix Use – No low-income housing. It essentially subsidizes big business because it enables those businesses to keep their wages low since there are more available people to work for lower wages.
- Support mixed use – retail restaurants, and business.
- Access for each category – inc. parking & congestion.
- Mixed use – Height limits can go up – a little. HC could be view property from upper stories. 3-4 stories is ok w/me. (If traffic and density issues are solved.)
- Limits on heights and density in Neighborhood Center.
- Retail low profiles of buildings = keep them no highter than average street trees = human scale.
- Restaurants
- Would support mixed use? –
- How to back to corridor & front
- Parking – adequate.
- I would trade off common areas in BC for variances in height and setbacks, possibly.
- 4-5 story mixed uses businesses fronting sidewalk.
- No parking lots fronting streets. Parking underground or behind buildings.
- Density!
- Don’t want 200 square foot apartments.
- Need to keep in line w/other similar mixed use to maintain property values.
- No office /day use other than commercial in HENC. Possible residential mixed use.
- Ensure ample retail/business to support walkable nature of neighborhoods for essential – not another packed in housing center such as the S. K. P&R TOD w/limited retail require (illegible).
- Architectural requirements
- I would like to see the city put in some building codes that would encourage more craftsman style homes vs. the ugly square glass and concrete modern-architecture homes.
- The BC should be mostly retail, some housing, and almost no office. We have other office space nearby.
- Mixed use – Even the city has been surprised by the “unlimited density”. We need definition & limit.
- Mixed use - % of housing, office, retail
- Don’t add housing. We need the retail options more for the residences that are already here. If density increases a lot (via added height) then we end up with underground parking which isn’t user friendly for quick stops to the grocery.
- Limit density in BC zones to prevents excessive density like Potala issue.
- If taller buildings are allowed, require public access to rooftop view areas.
- Parking for businesses and residences.
- The Everest side of the B.C. has many small, separately owned parcels.
- How do we discourage a mish-mash of developments on small lots.
- One floor of retail with residential above would make sense, especially if transit were to go in on the CKC.
- Plan for enough retail height to allow for supermarkets and drugstores.
- The Houghton 2011 plan only allowed for 12’ high retail space – this is not enough for grocery stores/drug stores.
- We need to do everything we can to preserve grocery & drug stores in business center. – don’t allow conversion to total residential or residential and only low quality retail.