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Duped by Verdae, on 11 March 2012 - 09:05 PM, said:
Haven't visited this thread in a while. Kind of became resigned to all the watering down of the architectural standards on the houses being built in the neighborhood. Then the signs along Rocky Slope showed up and found out about the planned Tapestry Park at Verdae apartments. None of the residents were even given a courtesy notification about this project by Verdae. I looked at the proposal that was supposed to go before the planning commission in February (and has now been delayed twice - probably as a result of strong resident opposition) and was totally floored. The plans call for a typical, garden style apartment complex. It is totally a type of typical suburban sprawl development. It has only one entrance to the complex, that is GATED, and then a parking lot winding around a cluster of apartment buildings. There is no connectivity to the rest of the development. It is isolated. No street grid meaning all traffic has no alternative except to be funneled onto Rocky Slope Road. Totally NOT new urban. No one at Verdae knows what TND or New Urbanism is, or they just don't care. It's really, really frustrating. The residents are very upset over this and we are once again meeting. However, we are a larger group now that we have more residents. We have met with Verdae twice, and also had a meeting with members of the Verdae Development board and the Hollingsworth Funds board, all to no avail. They are marketing and selling Hollingsworth Park as a TND, but unfortunately, that is not what the buyer is getting. Trust me, they have a fight on their hands. We have appealed to them directly, and as usual, they are not listening. Next stop, city officials. A public campaign is not out of the question. We plan to bring in some consultants who actually KNOW something about traditional neighborhood development instead of the idiots at Verdae. Don't know if we will be successful, but we will try.
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