Planning the future of the US 422 Corridor
What does your 422 Corridor look like?
As part of the US 422 Master Plan two scenarios were projected for the future. The Trend Scenario and the Sustainable Scenario. The Trend Scenario continues the existing pattern of low density residential and commercial sprawl, which will consume a vast majority of today's open space and farmland. The Sustainable Scenario has the same amount of residential and commercial development, but on 10,000 fewer acres. The Sustainable Scenario achieves this with higher density development, and revitalizing the existing downtown.
Which scenario would you prefer the corridor pursue?
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Permalink Reply by Philip C. Wert on -
I appreciate the Team's asking of such a question and the answer is already found in the names you've chosen for each scenario. Sustainable vs. Trend (or, in my opinion, Unsustainable). The vast expansion of this country's automobile suburbs since WWII have contributed to a host of problems that only now are we becoming to starkly realize. The list goes on, valuable farmland and open space lost, zero-sense of community planning and impact, complete dependency on car ownership for survival, Disney-ification of our local housing stock, such that every aspect of architecture, style, culture, history and quality are thrown to the four winds. The sprawling failure of the mono-cultured, low-density suburban housing experiment has shown us that to waste such resources on such crap is something we simply can't afford to do again.
The solution = urban, walkable, mixed-use communites serviced by a multitude of transportation choices. My sense is that you already know this, so I'm letting you know that there's a lot of us out there that "get it". Please continue to use common sense while performing furture planning endeavors because I've been impressed with the Teams's ideas and conviction so far.
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Permalink Reply by EJ Cox on -
It's important to pack in tight all the sardines that want to be in the can...
I like my suburban home and have paid for it. Planning should be more regionalized and the county level seems to be where planning and land use should be focused. Allowing local jurisdictions to decide where and what is built often is better known as who pays whom under the table for permits, land use exceptions, etc. Most local corruption stems from developers and the monies they seed the townships with to plant their projects...
Sure a maps with squares of different shades densely sewn appears as if all of the lands around here will soon be packed and asphalted over... How about requiring parking lots to be be built with grass block instead of asphalt? Let's not allow tree's to be cut down simply to put in a driveway knowing it takes 50 -100 years for a decent shade tree to grow?
Of course sustainable growth is the way, but you already knew that so why ask?
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Permalink Reply by Rob Danner on
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started a facebook page in support of the R6 extension to Reading, PA, join if you support.
http://www.facebook.com/?sk=2361831622#!/group.php?gid=295791247331
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