• mosiacmango
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        This is a municipal course as well, so Seattle could literally do this. The city government doesn’t want to.

        This heavily neglected sidewalk, next to the fenced off golf course, alongside a high speed and very busy highway onramp just 2 blocks from a light rail stop, tells you just how much the city cares about the area.

        There is no excuse not to cleanup and widen this sidewalk except apathy and malaise from the city.

            • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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              120 days ago

              There’s nothing generic about that lady in fact that’s a pretty cruel thing to say about someone.

              • @Soup@lemmy.world
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                320 days ago

                I’m a fairly generic looking person, we are more than our looks. She has nice glasses and isn’t unattractive or anything it’s just there’s basically nothing there to tell you where the picture is taken. There aren’t even visible brands anywhere.

                Other than maybe being able to guess the pacific northwest based those maybe being barefoot shoes, which is still a reach, what else is there?

                Also damn, going after me for being “cruel” while reducing her to a stereotype of her city? On a post about sidewalks I mean fuck, who asked you anyway?

                • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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                  Sorry, I didn’t mean any offense but it really feels like you’re trying to start a fight here and I don’t want any of that.

  • @SomeoneSomewhere@lemmy.nz
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    You’re probably not going to save 95% of the trees given the major earthworks likely needed for managing sewage, stormwater, and other utilities. You’ll probably save most of them, though.

    40k looks pretty optimistic for the size and number of buildings, too.

    • @Sergio@slrpnk.net
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      1821 days ago

      probably not going to save 95% of the trees

      I was wondering that too… maybe they meant: plant new trees, and the total number of new trees would be 95% of the number of old trees?

      • @LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net
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        3521 days ago

        I’m guessing they’re just not aware of construction impacts on trees. It’s not something most people think about.

        • @PugJesus@lemmy.worldOP
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          2921 days ago

          I supposed they meant “And this amount of space is still available for greenery” rather than “These, specific, trees will be preserved”

    • @index@sh.itjust.works
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      I don’t know if it’s the same in USA but with all these new regulations building houses these days is an environmental disaster

  • Sʏʟᴇɴᴄᴇ
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    Not sure how it works in the US but here in Oz (where water scarcity is always present in our collective psyche) golf courses are usually placed on flood plains where it would be dangerous/too expensive to build housing. In addition most allow people to walk through them and many even allow dog walkers so they have quite a lot of public amenity.

    I would still prefer if they were just designated as public parks rather than having huge swathes of grass that needed frequent watering, but they’re not nearly as bad as most make them out to be.

    • @faythofdragons@slrpnk.net
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      Yeah, here in the US, golf courses can be extremely wasteful. There’s two golf courses on my drive into the city, one is on a river floodplain, the other is a HOA golf course full of sprinklers that could absolutely be more housing. If I go the other way, there’s another HOA golf course that could be housing too. So, to start with, there’s three golf courses in a 15km radius.

      One of the HOA ones is exclusive access to the surrounding retirement community, the other HOA one doesn’t have a fence or anything, but idk if they chase people off. The one on the floodplain you have to pay to access the grounds.

    • @Agent641@lemmy.world
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      Public golf courses are one of the best things about Oz. They provide a forest island for birds and mammals among the suburbs. Many golf courses have large swathes of natural bushland around them. They are often run by the local council, and are hence not for profit, and generally they are very cheap to play.

      They make most of their money via selling beer and expensive golf clubs.

      Turn them over to property developers, and they’ll pave it with cheaply built single dwelling houses and flog them for way too much money resulting in just more urban desert and padded the obese wallets of billionaires.

      That’s if they are even build able. Some areas on floodplains and marshes that serve as a local soak for stormwater, hence the water hazards. Some are built on landfills that contain mu icipal waste or even asbestos, hence you can’t risk putting houses on them where someone might dig up the asbestos or waste. Turning them into a revenue-generating forest parkland is one of the few good things you can do with that land.

      The revenue earned by the golf course that is used to offset local parks and recs costs would otherwise be gained by taxing the local residents through land rates.

      I used to hate on them a lot before I learned that the economics of public courses is way different to that of private ones. There are still some private courses, and I wouldn’t be opposed to these being taken back into public hands and/or converted into affordable housing. To the gallows with the greedy exclusive fucktillionaires.

    • @doktormerlin@feddit.org
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      In Germany most courses only have a few public walkways and if you leave them security will escort you right out

  • @urata@lemmy.world
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    3721 days ago

    I work at a golf course and I’d rather be doing something meaningful like building homes so this post speaks to me directly.

    Unfortunately the big thing lately is we’ve been dropping a bunch of trees.

  • Krik
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    3620 days ago

    Why building something on it instead of converting it into a park? People love green stuff, you know.

    • @FooBarrington@lemmy.world
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      Why does it need to be a dedicated park? They’re not proposing getting rid of all the green stuff. Even better than having green stuff some distance away is living in the middle of the green stuff.

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        @FooBarrington @Krik
        Close the asphalt streets. Rip them up and plant trees and grass. A 9 foot wide pathway for pedestrians and bicycles in the middle. Subways and streetcars to transport people from one green belt to the next one road with access for emergency vehicles, public service vehicles and deliveries circling every 9 square blocks.

        • Krik
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          220 days ago

          Interesting idea. I’m not sure if that works everywhere but it’s a start. :)

      • Krik
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        Look at the picture. There’ll be not much green left. They’ll only leave the trees alone and based on the figure of 40 000 new residents the buildings will be taller than the trees. I don’t think that is great.

        Cities are more livable when there are parks every few blocks. I mean big ones, at least half a mile long. People need nature, not a tree here and there.

    • @index@sh.itjust.works
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      220 days ago

      Why building something on it instead of converting it into a park?

      Because rich people need money to build a bigger golf course somewhere else

  • @odelik@lemmy.today
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    3621 days ago

    If you just repurpose for housing you just wind up with 40,000 people needing transit and overloading the system you’re trying to promote.

    We need to think beyond housing and towards having communities that largely provide the needs of the people living with them. Shops, offices, other non-office/shop jobs, and recreational activities need to be considered as well.

    • @MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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      220 days ago

      The neat part is that businesses can be in the bottom couple of floors. Though often this doesn’t seem to be done unless it’s the CBD…

  • @GoofSchmoofer@lemmy.world
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    3120 days ago

    The best part about this is that this will give blackrock more homes to purchase with cash to the rent out to people at ridiculous prices. /s

    Sorry, I’ve become way to cynical these days about virtually everything, I need to go touch grass.

    • @frezik@midwest.social
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      There’s a few solutions out there to this, but it’s going to take a push to get city councils to agree to them.

      The city can provide loan guarantees to co-operative housing projects. Once the loan is paid off, everyone owns their condo.

      The city can also build its own housing rather than relying on developers.

    • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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      219 days ago

      Even Blackrock is affected by supply and demand. We clearly haven’t been building enough in most high demand places and that is not under Blackrocks control. Insufficient supply leads to high prices, regardless of corporate ownership

      Let’s start with how can we help supply catch up with demand, then take additional steps if that doesn’t bring prices down

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    But that runs counter to my need as a developer to bulldoze the entire area, build mcmansions 6 inches apart from eachother and at the barest mimimum of code (and perhaps even lower with a $$friendly$$ inspector), and then plant like a grand total of 5 trees that wont survive the first year.

    Oh, and also pave everything over. Gotta pave everything over. No one wants green space! /s

    • @MintyFresh@lemmy.world
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      When I was first committing to my no automobile lifestyle, one of the first things that struck me was the pavement. Fucking everywhere.

      Next time your about town , take a mental picture. Then subtract the parking lots. The huge road. Put the buildings closer together. Make a nice bikelane, something just wide enough to get a fire engine down. Plant some trees. Pretty nice right?

      Instead we have salted earth. It really is just rude to the earth. Fuck your car!

      • @A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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        All I want is the infrastructure to be more convenient. I cant walk anywhere unless I want to spend an hour+ walking, which is just impractical when i need to run and grab some fucking garlic powder real quick in the middle of dinner.

        Neighborhoods should have special commercial zoning inside of them to allow small shops, cafes, bakeries, etc

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          Yeah, special commercial zoning, if we can’t eliminate restrictions on small businesses in neighborhoods entirely, which should be the end goal. But yeah we desperately need anything we can get.

        • @AA5B@lemmy.world
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          219 days ago

          They do exist, even in the US. In general, look for a place that was built out before cars were everywhere

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          Agreed. A corner store, bakery, and a few other odds and ends as a cluster would be pretty solid.

          I hate not being able to just… walk to what I need.

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          I feel like neighborhoods not having local small-scale stores is a uniquely American problem.

          Here in Brazil every neighborhood is expected to have at least one grocery store, one convenience store, one pharmacy, one bakery, and one gas station. And most of them have a lot more than that, and a dozen other businesses.

          Like sure, you have to drive to the city center to get to the big shops and you’ll generally have more options if you do, but still.

          The exception is like. Specific developments built by and for wealthy people who want to Live Away From The Poors ™️ in a tropical imitation of American Suburbia. But THOSE people are there by choice.

      • Singletona082
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        Welcome to why the sim city games don’t have visible parking. They consciously removed parking spaces because it spread everything out too far.

    • @pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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      My local public golf course was closed and sold to developers a few years back.

      Promises were made to the community of keeping all the trees and lots of green space, as there was vicious community opposition.

      The developers have of course instead done what you suggest, and every house is crammed in next to each other just like every other new suburb. Its still in progress but it looks like once they’re done you wouldn’t even know it used to be a golf course.

      This meme is so stupid because it doesn’t present an even remotely possible outcome. A far better option is to keep the public golf courses for people to spend time outdoors and to provide homes for wildlife - and then remove regulations limiting building heights to encourage multi-storey development.

      Build up, not out - because once green space becomes houses it never changes back.

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    1420 days ago

    but then where should the rich people go golfing?

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    Not for nothing, but this wouldn’t fly in the USA. You’d need to replace most of those trees with roads.

    Or better yet, reduce the number of housing units and keep the trees.

  • @Trainguyrom@reddthat.com
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    Most suburban streets are 50 feet wide, many suburban front yards are 50 feet deep. That’s a wasted space 150 feet wide and however long the street is long. Think of how much housing could be built in that space if you tore up that road, and in its place put a pair of alleyways housing in the middle