Comments on: City Approves New Ped. Friendly Design Standard for the Downtown http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/29/city-approves-new-ped-friendly-design-standard-for-the-downtown/ Covering Los Angeles's livable streets movement Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Joe Linton http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/29/city-approves-new-ped-friendly-design-standard-for-the-downtown/comment-page-1/#comment-5545 Joe Linton Sat, 02 May 2009 01:21:57 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2075#comment-5545 @Daveed - LOL!!! Yes - let's start by busting open all those dreary and dullll faces of the Caltrans building! Thanks, though to the City Planning Department's Urban Design Studio!! Yay for pushing something sane through... I know it took a lot of work. @Daveed – LOL!!! Yes – let’s start by busting open all those dreary and dullll faces of the Caltrans building!

Thanks, though to the City Planning Department’s Urban Design Studio!! Yay for pushing something sane through… I know it took a lot of work.

]]> By: Daveed Kapoor http://la.streetsblog.org/2009/04/29/city-approves-new-ped-friendly-design-standard-for-the-downtown/comment-page-1/#comment-5520 Daveed Kapoor Thu, 30 Apr 2009 15:53:06 +0000 http://la.streetsblog.org/?p=2075#comment-5520 GREAT!~Now can we force the Government Buildings downtown to add some Pedestrian Oriented Functions on their ground floors? More than any other property owner - the City is guilty of blighting downtown and making it feel like a scary place to walk around. Also - they should ban opaque metal roll up gates that businesses on Broadway use to shutter their storefronts at night. Force a change to Metal Grilles or Translucent Gates - there needs to transparency along the street wall or else the city feels like a De-militarized zone. GREAT!~Now can we force the Government Buildings downtown to add some Pedestrian Oriented Functions on their ground floors? More than any other property owner – the City is guilty of blighting downtown and making it feel like a scary place to walk around.

Also – they should ban opaque metal roll up gates that businesses on Broadway use to shutter their storefronts at night. Force a change to Metal Grilles or Translucent Gates – there needs to transparency along the street wall or else the city feels like a De-militarized zone.

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