Downtown Suburbia

re: Downtown Suburbia

Jennifer Morley — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 16:18:58 GMT

Brendan,
You seem delusional as to the realities of living in Tampa Bay. When faced with empirical research, ignoring it and arguing it makes you appear mentally limited. It is kind of embarassing as this attitude is pretty representative of the national viewpoints of Flori-duh residents.
I laughed out loud regarding your comment about the garage and the Lexus.
The median family income in this area is about $42K, so the majority of Tampanians are not driving a Lexus. Here, you seem out of touch, much like the George Bush comment regarding $4 gas.
Matter of fact, the majority of us are having a hard time just getting by with property tax and insurance crisis, rapidly escalating gas and food prices, along with some of the lowest professional salaries in the country.

re: Downtown Suburbia

Cheryl McDonald — Sun, 02 Mar 2008 17:09:00 GMT

All of these comments about urbanism is all well and good in areas in the rest of this County but walking and hualing groceries or standing and waiting for transit in 90 degree heat (six months a year) is not something that I desire . After waitng for transit I'll need a shower and a change of clothes when I get to work to keep my co-workers happy. Do we build "bath houses"? Do we demand that our employers provide shower facilities?

We are use to being comfortable in our air conditioning. This state's growth was substantially based upon the advent of air conditioning.

Also, the topography here is so different, small wetlands and water retention areas tend to make areas seperate and inorder to have new urbanism we need areas that are contiguous. Where do we put the water? So do we disregard out natural environment?

re: Downtown Suburbia

Brendan — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 20:30:29 GMT

Jennifer, if you didn't have an ad hominem argument, you'd have no argument at all. Try not to take things so personally.

Cheryl, You raise an interesting point about the heat and humidity. But I like to think that our brand of new urbanism would give people the choice between driving, walking and riding. Right now, most people are stuck with the expensive and time consuming option of the single car commute.

re: Downtown Suburbia

James Hartzell Sr — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 22:12:09 GMT

Please answer me this. Would Hillory Clinton be ahead if the Florida delagates were counted? according to your latest polls she is only behind by 100 or so.
Thank you

re: Downtown Suburbia

Brendan — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:41:34 GMT

Hillary is down by about 110 delegates. If florida was factored in, she'd pick up a net of about 35, so it would not put her ahead of Obama.