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Neutrino said:
^It won't be car oriented because students don't drive. Also, they're redeveloping parking lots for crying out loud. Isn't that what we all want?
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The road is too wide, the setbacks are too deep. It doesn't have a campus feel.

Sure developing the parking lots is great!

Now develop them with attractive buildings, instead of soul-crushingly dull boxes, set those buildings back no more than 5m from the curb, and then only to allow for generous streetscaping, make the road interlocking pavers with a maximum row of 7M curb to curb. Now we're talking.

Defending this is like saying "look, my child graduated grade 4, isn't that great progress!" Sure it is; but is it wrong to set your sights a bit higher?
 
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These look great and the retail has also filled in to animate the street level. York typically doesn't get a lot of recognition but they've put together a nice collection of buildings on its campus.
 
It's a box.

Humdrum.........w/e

Which streetlight are they intending to use, there's a pseudo-Victorian design in the foreground of one pic and the rest are more modern.

The Victorian is entirely out of place; the modern is very humdrum.

Modern does not have to mean boring...........but in this case, the shoe fits.
 
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