Anybody out there go on the walking tour? If so, please tell us what you thought!
Barry
So Long and Thanks for All the Fish!
This site is now closed permanently to new posts.Click anywhere but the link to dismiss overlay!
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Apr 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol, California, United States
Last Online 04-21-2024
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Oct 2, 2005
Location: Sebastopol
Last Online 03-29-2024
I went on both helpful tours and my Commentary is scheduled for this week's Sonoma West. If you have any question, you can reach me at 829-8185.Posted in reply to the post by Barry:Anybody out there go on the walking tour? If so, please tell us what you thought!
Barry
Shepherd
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: May 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol
Last Online 07-25-2023
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Apr 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol, California, United States
Last Online 04-21-2024
Care to share your fantasies with us?Posted in reply to the post by scamperwillow:I went on Saturday and found it very interesting. Amazing to see what is going on inside those big buildings and also fun to fantasize about what could be there.
Marty
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: May 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol
Last Online 07-25-2023
Sure: a new solar powered community center that doesn't flood and has great sound and lighting, affordable housing in walking distance of downtown services, NO high-priced housing, mixed use buildings, live/work buildings. Pedestrian friendly walkways (maybe some with no cars) with outdoor cafe seating.
Adding some services that we currently need to drive to Santa Rosa for.
Everything built with required green building standards.
Natural waterways running between buildings for habitat, beauty, and collecting runoff.
Permeable surfaces and water catchment so there is LESS runoff into the Laguna than currently with all the asphalt and large roofs.
Integrating with downtown and the Coffee Catz area to make it easier to walk from one place to another.
Reopening some of the closed off streets - maybe just for pedestrian walkways. Landscaping with native plants.
A more user-friendly plaza that doesn't have a virtual freeway running on two sides of it.
those are a few.
Marty
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Apr 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol, California, United States
Last Online 04-21-2024
How would you make it so it doesn't flood?Posted in reply to the post by scamperwillow:a new solar powered community center that doesn't flood and has great sound and lighting
This would be really sweet and seem like a real opportunity. Businesses would flourish by them!Reopening some of the closed off streets - maybe just for pedestrian walkways.
Where would you put the plaza? Do you feel it would be problem if it weren't downtown?A more user-friendly plaza that doesn't have a virtual freeway running on two sides of it.
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Aug 16, 2005
Last Online 05-27-2009
are you suggesting to move the plaza or the traffic?Posted in reply to the post by scamperwillow:A more user-friendly plaza that doesn't have a virtual freeway running on two sides of it.
how would you reroute the traffic?
what route would you take during construction?
are WE going to pay for all of this?
just wondering
Last edited by Barry; 03-30-2006 at 02:46 PM.
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: May 9, 2005
Location: Sebastopol
Last Online 07-25-2023
I think the idea is to reroute some of the traffic so it isn't a freeway going around the plaza and it can more easily connect with something interesting happening across the street where the old lumber yard currently is. Just something I heard mentioned on the tour.Posted in reply to the post by ThePhiant:are you suggesting to move the plaza or the traffic?
how would you reroute the traffic?
what route would you take during construction?
are WE going to pay for all of this?
just wondering
Last edited by Barry; 03-31-2006 at 05:23 PM.
Real Name: (not displayed to guest users)
Join Date: Aug 16, 2005
Last Online 05-27-2009
I think that is a great IDEA, but where is the traffic going to go?Posted in reply to the post by scamperwillow:I think the idea is to reroute some of the traffic so it isn't a freeway going around the plaza and it can more easily connect with something interesting happening across the street where the old lumber yard currently is. Just something I heard mentioned on the tour.
I don't like to be trapped, or encircled by traffic either.
I would like to see main street closed off for 2 blocks or so, and to make it pedestrian traffic only. but the real question is where is the traffic going to go? overpasses maybe? pave over the laguna? reroute it into whose neighbourhood?
Last edited by Barry; 03-31-2006 at 05:23 PM.