Comments on: Downtown Richmond Falls in Love with the Mid-Rise http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/25/downtown-richmond-falls-in-love-with-the-mid-rise/ Fiscal and market perspectives on transportation and land use Wed, 26 Mar 2014 15:18:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.1 By: jabacon@baconsrebellion.com http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/25/downtown-richmond-falls-in-love-with-the-mid-rise/#comment-80 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:19:07 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=477#comment-80 Yesterday’s unwanted sprawl becomes tomorrow’s slums. Nobody’s building new housing for poor people. As they get displaced by gentrifiers, they have to go somewhere. Guess where they end up?

]]> By: jabacon@baconsrebellion.com http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/25/downtown-richmond-falls-in-love-with-the-mid-rise/#comment-79 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 18:18:02 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=477#comment-79 Sprawl development is still occurring — but it doesn’t have the same momentum behind it as before. There’s a lot of re-development going on in the Richmond region, and it’s absorbing a lot of the population growth. Not all of it, but a lot of it.

]]> By: ValidGarry http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/2014/02/25/downtown-richmond-falls-in-love-with-the-mid-rise/#comment-78 Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:46:30 +0000 http://www.smartgrowthforconservatives.com/?p=477#comment-78 If you think the subdivision is dead you need to get out to Short Pump and the burbs. The sprawl is grim, car-orientated and in no way subsiding.

As a side question, what will the Richmond region do with all the sprawl? So much of it is 1st and 2nd owner occupied and the housing designs no longer desired. The money follows the newer housing, so the schools do too. I have no understanding of how the many miles between, for example, the West End and Short Pump, will change in the next dacade or two.

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