[urbancore]

The density in West Campus makes me so proud. The anti “super-duplex” crowd wanted the kids out of Hyde Park, so they COMPROMISED and gave the owners of freaking parking lots in West Campus new entitlements (UNO). Now we have probably the most liveable urban space in the State. Why this is not used as a perfect example to increase density (appropriately), I have no idea. Everyone walks and rides, or takes a shuttle. And it was all done to corral the students, not some master plan of the way things should be done. Of course I’m speaking my opinions here, but I followed that whole thing pretty closely, and that was my take away. And to think a few residential home owners almost squashed it, we could still have parking lots all over WC and still bus kids in from Riverside and Far West.

Still needs grocery stores and other amenities, but they will come.