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Originally Posted by Pemgin
The Northside Midtown medical tower parking deck is shit. How exactly did that happen in Midtown in 2017? It's almost worse than the Skyhouse deck next door.
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It's because just like people overseeing the Atlanta planning department, previous zoning initiatives, and BeltLine overlay, the Midtown Alliance, while they have a decent "blueprint", are incredibly shortsighted and still figuring things out when writing zoning regulations and reviewing proposals. Honestly, they're shit at not having a fast one pulled over them by the private developers. They're letting crap designs through massive cracks due to their inexperience of ensuring quality developments for the neighborhood. Their vision for streetscaping is quality (although I absolutely doubt some of their actual project management experience), but when it comes to actual private developments, I would blow a gasket if I was their boss. Consistent terrible planning by the planners, especially after such a boom in construction. The revisions they've provided as of October are little too late. Not to mention there are people working at MA who wrote zoning for both downtown, midtown, and the beltline, that continues to disappoint those even without planning experience.
While MA certainly has accomplished a lot and has some talented folks on the team that have been putting up the good fight, MA (and Atlanta in general) would benefit from more experienced planners from outside Atlanta.
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